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It's crazy to me that anyone would still consider S3 after R2 was made available, given the egress fees. I regularly see people switching to R2 and saving thous
by sureIy 2y ago
It's crazy to me that anyone would still consider S3 after R2 was made available, given the egress fees. I regularly see people switching to R2 and saving thousands or hundreds of thousands by switching.
- compootr 2y agodoesn't s3 have 'free' (subsidized!) transfer to other products like ec2 though? it might look better to businesspeople that "well, we're doing this processing on ec2, why not keep our objects in s3 since it's a bit cheaper!"
- mjlee 2y agoS3 has free data transfer within the same region.
- YetAnotherNick 2y agoIn most cases S3 data is not directly exposed to the client. If the middleware is EC2, then you need to pay the same egress fee, but you you will have lower latency with S3, as EC2 shares the same datacenter as S3.
- JonoBB 2y agoFor the most part I agree, but we have found that R2 does not handle large files (hundreds of GB or larger) very well. It will often silently fail with nothing being returned, so it’s not possible to handle it gracefully.
- remus 2y agoDepends a bit on your use case. If you've got lots of other infra on AWS and you don't need to store that much data then the downside of using another platform can outweigh the cost savings.
- lijok 2y agoPeople still use S3 because doing business with Cloudflare is a liability.
- anentropic 2y agoThere are reasons like this: https://github.com/cloudflare/terraform-provider-cloudflare/issues/2537 https://github.com/cloudflare/terraform-provider-cloudflare/...
- crest 2y agoJust wait until Cloudflare decides you can afford to be on a different plan.
- dragonwriter 2y ago> It's crazy to me that anyone would still consider S3 after R2 was made available, given the egress fees. If your compute is on AWS, using R2 (or anything outside of AWS) for object storage means you pay AWS egress for “in-system” operations rather than at the system boundary, which is often much more expensive (plus, you also probably add a bunch of latency compared to staying on AWS infra.) And unless you are exposing your object store directly externally as your interface to the world, you still pay AWS egress at the boundary. Now, if all you use AWS for is S3, R2 may be, from a cost perspective, a no brainer, but who does that?