From S3 to R2: An economic opportunity

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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]▶

>>38121710 #

To be fair, 1 million downloads @ 1GB is a lot of data transfer. CloudFlare is likely losing money on this.

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12907835202 ◴[03 Nov 23 01:18 UTC] No.38123072[source]▶

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I'm abusing the hell out of it right now offering GB+ downloads that I used to use Digital Ocean Spaces for. It's saving me $2000-3000 a month since the switch.

Maybe abuse isn't the right word but definitely making the most.

I am a bit scared about being turned off overnight though.

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1. hnwizard ◴[03 Nov 23 09:02 UTC] No.38126167[source]▶

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Just for the sake of enlightening some people. Roughly $1000 per month buys you unlimited/unmetered 10GBe (10GBps) connectivity to your server/rack (do you know what this is?), from a tier-1 network provider.

This translates to roughly 1.2 gigabytes per second (every second of of the month), and 3240 terabytes of data per month - in or out, the choice is yours.

Things scale down as you buy more bandwidth, or commit to a longer contract.

Many would say that $1000 per month is literally "nothing" in terms of costs of service for most real businesses our there, and if you're a happy CSP user, you're probably paying a hell of a lot more than that per month for your infra.

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