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AWS S3? Cloudflare R2? We think we know what's coming next

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Re: AWS S3? Cloudflare R2? We think we know what's coming next

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Decentralized Cloud Storage services, like Storj DCS – are really interesting when compared to R2/S3. They are compatible with AWS S3, but with better economics than both R2 and S3 (1/10 price of amazon) - https://docs.storj.io/dcs/getting-started/quickstart-aws-sdk...

Is it worth it to host some disks for this?

Yeah, as long as you have good uptime. Check out storj.io/node

Re: AWS S3? Cloudflare R2? We think we know what's coming next

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This is some great content marketing by Taloflow. Having not paid attention to this story I didn’t realize they chose R because it was one letter behind S in the alphabet. If Cloudflare was a smaller company they’d probably get sued pretty fast. That has happened for much sillier and vain reasons. But I doubt there’s much to gain via the courts in the current state of things. This seems to be standard price competiti…

If consumers are so likely to confuse "S3" and "R2" that a court would grant trademark enforcement to S3 over this, then Mazda could have successfully sued BMW over the confusion between MX-2 and M3, not to mention the total havoc such a court judgment would wreak upon the SMT labeling industry: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28777350 If Cloudflare had an entire AWS-simulation business and was making a clear ef…

  > Cloudflare seems pretty dead-set on being different
  > than AWS (for example, they offer customer support
In my experience with problems that I have caused in my AWS environments, AWS has excellent support.

Re: AWS S3? Cloudflare R2? We think we know what's coming next

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I would just like to give some respect to Backblaze B2 in here!

B2 is nice but horrendously slow.

A couple of months ago I was playing with BackBlaze and Oracle cloud. For some reason, mounting a Backblaze storage (using FUSE S3 and BB S3 compatibility ) in Oracle cloud was terribly slow. When I tried exactly the same in an AWS EC2 instance it was quite fast. No idea why that happened.

Re: AWS S3? Cloudflare R2? We think we know what's coming next

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post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Q1 will be R2 minus one thing: storage fees.

P0 has already been built: https://devnull-as-a-service.com/

I love the filename on their cleanup script "gift to the open source community":

https://devnull-as-a-service.com/one-less-to-go.sh

  sudo rm -rf $(sudo find / -type f -print0 | shuf -n1 -z)
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