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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: 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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pier25 ◴[03 Nov 23 01:54 UTC] No.38123392[source]▶
Why would they?

Cloudflare doesn't pay for egress and neither does AWS.

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stingraycharles ◴[03 Nov 23 02:43 UTC] No.38123800[source]▶
But their egress capacity is limited, not? We're talking about 1PB per month here. If every customer of them would be paying only 13 cents a month and pushing out 1PB per month, wouldn't they need to significantly upgrade their hardware and lose money in the process?
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1. pier25 ◴[03 Nov 23 18:51 UTC] No.38133231{4}[source]▶
> If every customer of them would be paying only 13 cents a month and pushing out 1PB per month...

Which is never going to happen for legitimate use cases.

And Cloudflare has DDOS protection for ilegitimate ones.