Yes. The instant I get access.
This plus CloudFlare Workers might replace quite a few AWS S3/Lambda projects.
Will Cloudflare R2 Win Customers from Amazon S3?
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#12The lower egress fees are super nice, but until someone can beat the Glacier Deep Archive pricing @ $0.00099 per GB I'm going to keep using that.
That's not for data you Will actually use. You are only including one of the many cysts ( egress and retrieval) + it's really slow.
Cloudflare brings R2 to the edge.
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#13Personally I find Backblaze B2 more compelling. ... Ok, after writing that, I realized that I should probably look up R2's offering first. And then my jaw hit the floor at "free egress bandwidth". Free egress bandwidth ? Yes please. I will instantly convert. Then I was worried about price per GB. $0.015/GB is incredibly competitive. Good lord, where do I get early access to this thing? I'd transition all our infra to…
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#14Given the pricing, and the ability to fault in storage from S3 in any case, almost certainly "yes" is the answer to the headline, in stunning contradiction to Betteridge's law!
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#15The lower egress fees are super nice, but until someone can beat the Glacier Deep Archive pricing @ $0.00099 per GB I'm going to keep using that.
"Archive"
Archive is great for archiving. S3 standard tier is not for archiving.
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#16Personally I find Backblaze B2 more compelling. ... Ok, after writing that, I realized that I should probably look up R2's offering first. And then my jaw hit the floor at "free egress bandwidth". Free egress bandwidth ? Yes please. I will instantly convert. Then I was worried about price per GB. $0.015/GB is incredibly competitive. Good lord, where do I get early access to this thing? I'd transition all our infra to…
We will see in practice how it is. As the article suggested, there are often caveats to "unlimited" and honestly I don't even think they have written unlimited anywhere :)
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#17Personally I find Backblaze B2 more compelling. ... Ok, after writing that, I realized that I should probably look up R2's offering first. And then my jaw hit the floor at "free egress bandwidth". Free egress bandwidth ? Yes please. I will instantly convert. Then I was worried about price per GB. $0.015/GB is incredibly competitive. Good lord, where do I get early access to this thing? I'd transition all our infra to…
Responding to a deleted but interesting comment. Normally I wouldn't do this, but it's harmless enough:
> Backblaze B2 transfer to Cloudflare is free egress due to bandwidth alliance and Cloudflare CDN is free egress. So you already kinda have that.
Hmm... What does it mean to transfer to Cloudflare? That's interesting.
I want free egress to my Hetzner servers. (4x16TB for $79EU/mo is unbeatable, primarily because Hetzner also has unlimited free egress bandwidth.)
But if Cloudflare offers servers, I should look into that. Do they? Even if they do, what's their egress pricing?
Thanks for the tip!
(I've been wondering about B2's mysterious "computing partners" -- their computing partners get free egress, so it seems entirely plausible that Cloudflare might be one such computing partner. I just didn't realize that Cloudflare might do computing at all -- in my head, they were a proxy, not a server farm.)
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#18Personally I find Backblaze B2 more compelling. ... Ok, after writing that, I realized that I should probably look up R2's offering first. And then my jaw hit the floor at "free egress bandwidth". Free egress bandwidth ? Yes please. I will instantly convert. Then I was worried about price per GB. $0.015/GB is incredibly competitive. Good lord, where do I get early access to this thing? I'd transition all our infra to…
We will see in practice how it is. As the article suggested, there are often caveats to "unlimited" and honestly I don't even think they have written unlimited anywhere :)
I think that when CF say unlimited bandwidth they really mean it. I manage a domain on the business level plan for a domain and I pushed over 1PB through it in January. Not a single complaint from CF and no sales calls pushing enterprise tier.
They haven't clarified their file operations costs yet though. That could get pricy but will more than likely be cancelled out by the egress savings for most use cases.
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#19How is Cloudflare gonna coup up the price? These numbers are too good to be true (Sorry I am naive in how egress pricing works).
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#20Hi, I'm LV, I wrote this post. I co-founded Taloflow to make choosing cloud vendors transparent and easy.
I'm curious to hear what factors HN readers think I missed and if you think Cloudflare R2 will be a threat in the cloud object storage market place.