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From S3 to R2: An economic opportunity

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274 points dangoldin | 2 comments | 02 Nov 23 19:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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meowface ◴[02 Nov 23 20:22 UTC] No.38119562[source]▶
Is there any reason to not use R2 over a competing storage service? I already use Cloudflare for lots of other things, and don't personally care all that much about the "Cloudflare's near-monopoly as a web intermediary is dangerous" arguments or anything like that.
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1. MGriisser ◴[02 Nov 23 23:19 UTC] No.38121809[source]▶
Is R2 subject to Cloudflare's universal API rate limit? They have an API rate limit of 1200 requests/5 minutes that I've hit many times with their images product.

And they won't increase it unless you become an enterprise customer in which case they'll generously double it.

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2. njs12345 ◴[03 Nov 23 14:55 UTC] No.38129750[source]▶
There is the Images Batch API that isn't subject to the 1200 requests/5 minutes limit: https://developers.cloudflare.com/images/cloudflare-images/u...