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From S3 to R2: An economic opportunity

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274 points dangoldin | 10 comments | 02 Nov 23 19:15 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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tehlike ◴[02 Nov 23 20:14 UTC] No.38119427[source]▶
If you are storing large amount of data: E2 is the cheapest (20$/TB/year, 3x egress for free)

If you are having lots of egress: R2 is the cheapest (15$/TB/month, free egress)

R2 can get somewhat expensive if you have lots of mutations, which is not a typical use case for most.

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1. vladvasiliu ◴[02 Nov 23 20:26 UTC] No.38119622[source]▶
What's E2? Top google result for "e2 blob storage" is azure, but that can't be it since the pricing table comes at around $18/TB/month.
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2. maccam912 ◴[02 Nov 23 20:38 UTC] No.38119809[source]▶
I imagine it was a typo for backblaze B2? The call out that egress is free for the first 3x of what you have stored matches up.
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3. natrys ◴[02 Nov 23 20:41 UTC] No.38119833[source]▶
Seems to be this one: https://www.idrive.com/object-storage-e2/
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5. wfleming ◴[02 Nov 23 20:45 UTC] No.38119890[source]▶
That’s what I thought they meant as well, but B2 is more like $72/TB/yr. Maybe relevant to another story on the front page right now, they have a very unusual custom keyboard layout that makes it easy to typo e for b and 2 for 7 ;)?
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6. leiferik ◴[02 Nov 23 20:56 UTC] No.38120029[source]▶
I think Backblaze B2 is probably the reference (which has free egress up to 3x data stored - https://www.backblaze.com/blog/2023-product-announcement/). I don't know of any public S3-compatible provider that is as cheap as 20$/TB/year (roughly ~$0.0016/GB/mo).
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7. tehlike ◴[02 Nov 23 23:26 UTC] No.38121882[source]▶
Yes this is the one.
8. tehlike ◴[02 Nov 23 23:26 UTC] No.38121884[source]▶
Idrive e2 https://www.idrive.com/object-storage-e2/pricing
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9. tehlike ◴[02 Nov 23 23:27 UTC] No.38121891{3}[source]▶
Idrive e2

https://www.idrive.com/object-storage-e2/pricing

10. leiferik ◴[03 Nov 23 01:12 UTC] No.38123014{3}[source]▶
I stand corrected! Will bookmark this to take a look at this later. Thank you!