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Cloudflare R2 storage: Rapid and reliable object storage, minus the egress fees

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Re: Cloudflare R2 storage: Rapid and reliable object storage, minus the egress fees

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Post by christophilus »

gnfargbl wrote: post #15
Youden wrote: post #5

Interesting pricing considering Backblaze is another Bandwidth Alliance member and they only charge $0.005/GBmonth (vs. $0.015/GBmonth). B2 + CloudFlare gives you a similar deal at a third the cost.

I recently started keeping about 30TB of ElasticSearch and Postgres backups in Backblaze B2. The price is great, but getting data in is not particularly easy as the Backblaze S3 API seems to fail a high proportion of requests when under load. If R2 can be approximately as reliable on ingest as AWS/GCS/Azure is, but without the egress fees of the other major providers, then $0.015/GB-month seems like a pretty good dea…

I’ve had a great experience with Wasabi + BunnyCDN. Might be worth kicking the tires, as it’s a really inexpensive combo.

Re: Cloudflare R2 storage: Rapid and reliable object storage, minus the egress fees

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Post by adventured »

Youden wrote: post #5

Interesting pricing considering Backblaze is another Bandwidth Alliance member and they only charge $0.005/GBmonth (vs. $0.015/GBmonth). B2 + CloudFlare gives you a similar deal at a third the cost.

Very much depends on what you're utilizing Backblaze for. It's unusable for volume image hosting for example. It has severe performance problems with small files, as does much of the object storage field (including DigitalOcean, they directly warn customers not to bother using their object storage for small files if performance is a concern). The CDN doesn't help much, Backblaze chokes if you try to shovel a large number of small files at it (their infrastructure was not designed for that and they admit it in their docs), and or attempt to pull a lot of small files out of it. AWS is pretty great when it comes to that by contrast, and with the price to go with it. I'm looking forward to finding out what R2 can do.

Re: Cloudflare R2 storage: Rapid and reliable object storage, minus the egress fees

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Post by syshum »

zacincceo wrote: post #22

$15 is too expensive, especially if you want to follow proper 3-2-1 it'll cost you $45/TB What happens to your Object Storage buckets when Cloudflare has an outage? - https://filebase.com/blog/what-happens-when-my-cloud-goes-do...

What do you mean... The cloud does not need backups /s

Re: Cloudflare R2 storage: Rapid and reliable object storage, minus the egress fees

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Post by frankjr »

> Our object storage will be extremely inexpensive for infrequent access and yet capable of and cheaper than major incumbent providers at scale.

How frequent is infrequent? In our case it's "never unless other backups fail" and for that S3 Glacier Deep Archive is still cheaper ($0.00099 per GB).

Re: Cloudflare R2 storage: Rapid and reliable object storage, minus the egress fees

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Post by nicoburns »

zacincceo wrote: post #22

$15 is too expensive, especially if you want to follow proper 3-2-1 it'll cost you $45/TB What happens to your Object Storage buckets when Cloudflare has an outage? - https://filebase.com/blog/what-happens-when-my-cloud-goes-do...

If you want to do proper 3-2-1, shouldn't you be storing the other backups on a different service?

Re: Cloudflare R2 storage: Rapid and reliable object storage, minus the egress fees

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Post by zacincceo »

syshum wrote: post #24
zacincceo wrote: post #22

$15 is too expensive, especially if you want to follow proper 3-2-1 it'll cost you $45/TB What happens to your Object Storage buckets when Cloudflare has an outage? - https://filebase.com/blog/what-happens-when-my-cloud-goes-do...

What do you mean... The cloud does not need backups /s

Look up Bucket Replication Policies....

Re: Cloudflare R2 storage: Rapid and reliable object storage, minus the egress fees

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Post by rpadovani »

jgrahamc wrote: post #4
rpadovani wrote: post #2

Nice, and it seems to be quite cheap as well. It's unfortunate, tho, they don't talk about data residency: where are servers located? Where will my data be copied?

What would you like the answer to be? Do you need regional control over data storage like we do with this https://blog.cloudflare.com/supporting-jurisdictional-restri... ?

Yes, definitely, EU regulated industries need to be 100% sure to keep data in EU datacenters

Re: Cloudflare R2 storage: Rapid and reliable object storage, minus the egress fees

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Post by zacincceo »

nicoburns wrote: post #26
zacincceo wrote: post #22

$15 is too expensive, especially if you want to follow proper 3-2-1 it'll cost you $45/TB What happens to your Object Storage buckets when Cloudflare has an outage? - https://filebase.com/blog/what-happens-when-my-cloud-goes-do...

If you want to do proper 3-2-1, shouldn't you be storing the other backups on a different service?

That's the reason why most enterprises have 4-7 copies of their data..... No inherent geo-replication by default (and as CF shares, it's a "hotel California" problem.... Too expensive to egress completely from AWS.
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