←back to thread

From S3 to R2: An economic opportunity

(dansdatathoughts.substack.com)
274 points dangoldin | 1 comments | 02 Nov 23 19:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
Show context
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)

replies(4): >>38119194 #>>38120069 #>>38120641 #>>38122400 #
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?
replies(9): >>38119285 #>>38119489 #>>38119521 #>>38119701 #>>38119768 #>>38119769 #>>38120649 #>>38121416 #>>38125131 #
1. dotnet00 ◴[02 Nov 23 21:45 UTC] No.38120649[source]▶
There has to be more to it than a pure loss leader, since there's also the Bandwidth Alliance Cloudflare is in, which allows R2 competitors like Backblaze B2 to also offer free egress, which benefits those competitors while weakening the incentive for R2 somewhat.