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From S3 to R2: An economic opportunity

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meowface ◴[] 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. lewisl9029 ◴[] No.38121902[source]
It's been a while, but last time I checked, write latency on R2 was pretty horrendous. Close to 1s compared to S3's <100ms, tested from my laptop in SF. Wouldn't be surprised if they made progress on this front, but definitely do dig deeper if your workload is sensitive to write latency.

Another (that probably contributes directly to the write latency issues) is region selection and replication. S3 just offers a ton more control here. I have a bunch of S3 buckets replicating async across regions around the world to enable fast writes everywhere (my use case can tolerate eventual consistency here). R2 still seems very light on region selection and replication options. Kinda disappointed since they're supposed to be _the_ edge company.