From S3 to R2: An economic opportunity

As an indie dev, I recommend R2 highly. No egress is the killer feature. I started using R2 earlier this year for my AI transcription service TurboScribe (https://turboscribe.ai/). Users upload audio/video files directly to R2 buckets (sometimes many large, multi-GB files), which are then transferred to a compute provider for transcription. No vendor lock-in for my compute (ingress is free/cheap pretty much everywhere) and I can easily move workloads across multiple providers. Users can even re-download their (again, potentially large) files with a simple signed R2 URL (again, no egress fees).

I'm also a Backblaze B2 customer, which I also highly recommend and has slightly different trade-offs (R2 is slightly faster in my experience, but B2 is 2-3x cheaper storage, so I use it mostly for backups other files that I'm likely to store a long time).