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Cloudflare R2 (their S3 clone) has free egress. We are in the middle of migrating about 5TB of fairly active data from Google Cloud Storage to R2. For years no

Cloudflare R2 (their S3 clone) has free egress. We are in the middle of migrating about 5TB of fairly active data from Google Cloud Storage to R2. For years now, most of our cloud bill has been egress from GCS. Activity spiked recently and doing something about it became urgent. R2 has an S3-compatible API (we're using the Amazon-provided S3 Java SDK). Storage is 25% cheaper than GCS standard. Making our code multi-provider was pretty easy. I'm actually looking forward to next month's hosting bill. I feel like I'm slowly getting pushed off of GCP due to pricing. Last year we moved some stateless image processing infrastructure to AWS Elastic Beanstalk because RAM is much, much cheaper there.

chpatrick 3y ago
It's a bit worrying though that one day they might decide to not leave the money on the table.
Aachen 3y ago
General question, can we just call object storage object storage? If there's going to be another provider after already remembering S3, B2, now R2, on top of the various aliases for products like virtual servers, shared hosting, VLANs, and other things people are presenting as new products with the most random of abbreviations, I'm really going to lose track.
- namtab00 3y ago
  we need something like [this](https://www.azureperiodictable.com/ https://www.azureperiodictable.com/), but across all cloud providers
andersa 3y ago
You kinda pay in reduced performance. For example, civitai uses r2 for delivering the images, and it frequently doesn't load at all for me or very slowly. When your users have to use a VPN to move their traffic to another Cloudflare data center so the site actually loads, something is wrong...
- pixl97 3y ago
  Heh, this entire threat is "Fast, cheap, reliable... Pick two" where everyone wonders why all three are so much more expensive.
  - Dylan16807 3y ago
    Not really. There is a cost to being fast and reliable, but then the biggest cloud providers slap an additional >10x increase on top because they can get people to pay it. You can also buy high quality connections at datacenters and plug them into your own servers.

chpatrick 3y ago

It's a bit worrying though that one day they might decide to not leave the money on the table.

Aachen 3y ago

General question, can we just call object storage object storage? If there's going to be another provider after already remembering S3, B2, now R2, on top of the various aliases for products like virtual servers, shared hosting, VLANs, and other things people are presenting as new products with the most random of abbreviations, I'm really going to lose track.

namtab00 3y ago
we need something like [this](https://www.azureperiodictable.com/ https://www.azureperiodictable.com/), but across all cloud providers

andersa 3y ago

You kinda pay in reduced performance. For example, civitai uses r2 for delivering the images, and it frequently doesn't load at all for me or very slowly. When your users have to use a VPN to move their traffic to another Cloudflare data center so the site actually loads, something is wrong...

pixl97 3y ago
Heh, this entire threat is "Fast, cheap, reliable... Pick two" where everyone wonders why all three are so much more expensive.
- Dylan16807 3y ago
  Not really. There is a cost to being fast and reliable, but then the biggest cloud providers slap an additional >10x increase on top because they can get people to pay it. You can also buy high quality connections at datacenters and plug them into your own servers.