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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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meowface ◴[02 Nov 23 20:22 UTC] No.38119562[source]▶
Is there any reason to not use R2 over a competing storage service? I already use Cloudflare for lots of other things, and don't personally care all that much about the "Cloudflare's near-monopoly as a web intermediary is dangerous" arguments or anything like that.
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Hasz ◴[02 Nov 23 21:34 UTC] No.38120515[source]▶
As far as I know, R2 offers no storage tiers. Most of my s3 usage is archival and sits in glacier. From Cloudflare's pricing page, S3 is substantially cheaper for that type of workload.
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thrtythreeforty ◴[03 Nov 23 05:41 UTC] No.38124971[source]▶
I know people archive all kinds of data. I use Glacier as off-site backup for my measly 1TB of irreplaceable data. But I know many customers put petabytes in it.

What could you have a petabyte of that you're pretty sure you'll never need again? What kind of datasets are you storing?

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1. Hasz ◴[03 Nov 23 19:29 UTC] No.38133854{3}[source]▶
long term work stuff. Things we would be contractually obligated to produce many years down the line.

Plenty of other people storing images, video, etc. a PB is really not that much stuff when it's not just for personal consumption.