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From S3 to R2: An economic opportunity

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274 points dangoldin | 3 comments | 02 Nov 23 19:15 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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josevalerio ◴[02 Nov 23 23:08 UTC] No.38121710[source]▶
Here’s a tweet from Corey Quinn describing how bonkers R2 pricing is:

> let’s remember that the internet is 1-to-many. If 1 million people download that 1GB this month, my cost with @cloudflare R2 this way rounds up to 13¢. With @awscloud S3 it’s $59,247.52.

https://x.com/quinnypig/status/1443076111651401731?s=46

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stingraycharles ◴[03 Nov 23 00:22 UTC] No.38122482[source]▶
To be fair, 1 million downloads @ 1GB is a lot of data transfer. CloudFlare is likely losing money on this.
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pier25 ◴[03 Nov 23 01:54 UTC] No.38123392[source]▶
Why would they?

Cloudflare doesn't pay for egress and neither does AWS.

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stingraycharles ◴[03 Nov 23 02:43 UTC] No.38123800[source]▶
But their egress capacity is limited, not? We're talking about 1PB per month here. If every customer of them would be paying only 13 cents a month and pushing out 1PB per month, wouldn't they need to significantly upgrade their hardware and lose money in the process?
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qaq ◴[03 Nov 23 03:31 UTC] No.38124132[source]▶
They are already serving roughly 20% of internet traffic as is so there is some natural limit to this whole thing.
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1. eastdakota ◴[03 Nov 23 04:54 UTC] No.38124680[source]▶
Yup. Bandwidth at scale is effectively free.

The greatest trick AWS ever pulled was convincing the world you needed to pay for bandwidth.

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2. 55555 ◴[03 Nov 23 05:31 UTC] No.38124907[source]▶
Well you’ve won me over.
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3. Sai_ ◴[03 Nov 23 14:05 UTC] No.38128952[source]▶
Just as an fyi, eastDakota is in Cloudflare’s executive team. Think he’s their CEO.

Not saying not to trust him - he’s probably a very reasonable and standup guy - but you should know this about him before taking his word on a topic like this.

No disrespect @eastDakota