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From S3 to R2: An economic opportunity

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274 points dangoldin | 1 comments | 02 Nov 23 19:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.223s | source
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simonsarris ◴[02 Nov 23 19:47 UTC] No.38118991[source]▶
Cloudflare has been attacking the S3 egress problem by creating Sippy: https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/data-migration/sippy/

It allows you to incrementally migrate off of providers like S3 and onto the egress-free Cloudflare R2. Very clever idea.

He calls R2 an undiscovered gem and IMO this is the gem's undiscovered gem. (Understandable since Sippy is very new and still in beta)

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ravetcofx ◴[02 Nov 23 20:00 UTC] No.38119194[source]▶
What are the economics that Amazon and other providers have egress fees and R2 doesn't? Is it acting as a loss leader or does this model still make money for CloudFlare?
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kazen44 ◴[02 Nov 23 20:31 UTC] No.38119701[source]▶
also, egress fees are a sort of vendor lock-in, because getting data out of the cloud is vastly more expensive then putting new data into the cloud..
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1. kkielhofner ◴[02 Nov 23 21:02 UTC] No.38120093[source]▶
The big cloud providers are Hotel California - you can check in but you can't check out.

Of course you can (like Snap) but it's a MASSIVE engineering effort and initial expense.