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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: 0s | source
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hipadev23 ◴[02 Nov 23 20:39 UTC] No.38119812[source]▶
OP is missing that a correct implementation of Databricks or Snowflake will have those instances are running inside the same AWS region as the data. That's not to say R2 isn't an amazing product, but the egregious costs aren't as high since egress is $0 on both sides.
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cmgriffing ◴[02 Nov 23 21:13 UTC] No.38120245[source]▶
I could be mistaken, but I believe AWS would still charge for one direction of an S3 to Databricks/Snowflake instance/cluster.
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1. hipadev23 ◴[02 Nov 23 22:02 UTC] No.38120884[source]▶
AWS S3 Egress charges are $0.00 when the destination is AWS within the same region. When you setup your Databricks or Snowflake accounts, you need to correctly specify the same region as your S3 bucket(s) otherwise you'll pay egress.