(dansdatathoughts.substack.com)

274 points dangoldin | 1 comments | 02 Nov 23 19:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source

Show context

simonsarris ◴[02 Nov 23 19:47 UTC] No.38118991[source]▶

Cloudflare has been attacking the S3 egress problem by creating Sippy: https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/data-migration/sippy/

It allows you to incrementally migrate off of providers like S3 and onto the egress-free Cloudflare R2. Very clever idea.

He calls R2 an undiscovered gem and IMO this is the gem's undiscovered gem. (Understandable since Sippy is very new and still in beta)

replies(4): >>38119194 #>>38120069 #>>38120641 #>>38122400 #

ravetcofx ◴[02 Nov 23 20:00 UTC] No.38119194[source]▶

>>38118991 #

What are the economics that Amazon and other providers have egress fees and R2 doesn't? Is it acting as a loss leader or does this model still make money for CloudFlare?

replies(9): >>38119285 #>>38119489 #>>38119521 #>>38119701 #>>38119768 #>>38119769 #>>38120649 #>>38121416 #>>38125131 #

1. mannyv ◴[03 Nov 23 06:13 UTC] No.38125131[source]▶

>>38119194 #

The way to reduce s3 egress fees is to use CloudFront, negotiate your cloudfront fees down, then use s3 as the origin.

↑

From S3 to R2: An economic opportunity