Cloudflare R2 Pricing
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Cloudflare R2 Pricing
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#2The prices seem incredible. Will Cloudflare actually make any money off this?
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#3The prices seem incredible. Will Cloudflare actually make any money off this?
Storage is $15/TB/Month. Commodity hard drives currently go for around $17/TB.
Considering data is replicated across several hard drives, servers and electricity aren’t free, etc. I would guess that Cloudflare won’t break even on storage until several months of utilization (unlike Amazon who probably breaks even on day 1).
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#4The prices seem incredible. Will Cloudflare actually make any money off this?
Storage is $15/TB/Month. Commodity hard drives currently go for around $17/TB. Considering data is replicated across several hard drives, servers and electricity aren’t free, etc. I would guess that Cloudflare won’t break even on storage until several months of utilization (unlike Amazon who probably breaks even on day 1).
I guess in the long term the product will at least pay for itself, in the short term it will just be a marketing campaign and gives people a good reason to switch from their Amazon stack in case they don't depend on things like EC2-S3 transfers. When comparing to Backblaze B2 [1], Cloudflare's storage cost is 3x but you don't pay for egress as a tradeoff (compared to 0.01$/GB for Backblaze).
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#5The prices seem incredible. Will Cloudflare actually make any money off this?
I think the real question is "How much money is Amazon extracting from users?"
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#6What does R2 stand for?
> Cloudflare R2 (beta) documentation
> Cloudflare R2 Storage allows developers to store large amounts of unstructured data without the costly egress bandwidth fees associated with typical cloud storage services.
Is is merely (S-1)(3-1)?
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#7What does R2 stand for? > Cloudflare R2 (beta) documentation > Cloudflare R2 Storage allows developers to store large amounts of unstructured data without the costly egress bandwidth fees associated with typical cloud storage services. Is is merely (S-1)(3-1)?
Yes, see their initial announcement post where they showed it’s a backronym.
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#8Does that mean that reading a 100kB file from within the datacenter where the object is stored costs the same serving a 5TB file to an external consumer?
(I already found S3's per-request pricing weird for reading big files, but at least there it's limited to internal traffic not egress)
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#9The prices seem incredible. Will Cloudflare actually make any money off this?
I think the real question is "How much money is Amazon extracting from users?"
Egress pricing 100 times lower than Amazon could be realistic (S3 egress costs between $50/TB and $90/TB, while Hetzner bills 1 EUR/TB, and Cloudflare is bigger than Hetzner).
Free egrees is weird. In particular using R2 to offer videos or other big downloads appears to be unrealistically cheap.
A $1/TB offer would still be very appealing, while allowing Cloudflare to break even on traffic-heavy use-cases.
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#10I wonder how feasible it would be to keep cold assets on Backblaze B2 and automatically move them to R2 if they get hot enough.
Better yet, seeing as how you get free transfers between Backblaze and Cloudflare, I wonder if the 10ms cpu limit on free workers (or 50ms paid) would be enough to do the entire process on CF's servers.