From S3 to R2: An economic opportunity

But what are you going to do with your data in R2? They don't have all the other cloud services to use the data. Unless your only use of the cloud is literally for raw storage, it's not that practical.

Compare with say Oracle cloud which tries to compete by having 1/10th the egress charge. But nobody uses it anyway and they DO offer all the other services.

Yeah if you want to completely ignore Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, etc then that comparison makes sense I guess... but wait that is only if you also wanted to ignore that you can serve the files publicly directly so that alone has many use cases as well esp with the free bandwidth

You could use a computer to access your R2 files - a computer from anywhere on the Internet.