> Our vision for R2 includes multi-region storage that automatically replicates objects to the locations they’re frequently requested from.

Seems like they are going to automatically replicate data to other regions. Something like tebi.io is doing for a long time already, it is a geo-distributed S3-compatible storage that is replicating data across the world to reduce read/write latency and increase speed.

If it is done right, this might increase download speeds by a lot especially for big infrequently accessed files.