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From S3 to R2: An economic opportunity

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274 points dangoldin | 1 comments | 02 Nov 23 19:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.36s | 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. YetAnotherNick ◴[03 Nov 23 09:31 UTC] No.38126351[source]▶
Yes R2 is likely loosing money in this case. But network capacity and switches is not that expensive the way AWS is charging for it. For $60k/month or $720k/year, AWS is basically giving 3GB/s.

I feel R2 should charge something for transfer though, otherwise people could abuse it. Hetzner charges ~1.5% of AWS egress fees which I feel is right thing to do and likely profitable.