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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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1. Too ◴[03 Nov 23 05:39 UTC] No.38124960[source]▶
One hour 4K Netflix episode would be around 1Gb magnitude and likely watched by even more than 1M ppl. Game downloads even bigger, often at several Gb, with similar amount of users.

Though not everyone is Netflix.

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2. inhumantsar ◴[03 Nov 23 05:54 UTC] No.38125042[source]▶
Almost no one is
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3. hnwizard ◴[03 Nov 23 09:04 UTC] No.38126182[source]▶
Netflix serves all of this data from their caches, very close to end users, paying probably nothing for said bandwidth.