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Re:Cloudflare R2 storage: Rapid and reliable object storage,... by danielheath on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @08:58PM (#28689203)
> Given that Cloudflare's costs are probably lower than Backblaze for bandwidth, that doesn't seem so unreasonable - but I could be very wrong.

At scale, bandwidth capacity purchases are symmetric - you buy the same amount up as you do down. As a provider of DDOS protection services, Cloudflare has to maintain a huge amount of ingress capacity - meaning they have a ton of egress capacity sitting unused.

Re:Cloudflare R2 storage: Rapid and reliable object storage,... by dx034 on Thursday September 30, 2021 @04:34AM (#28704274)
According to PeeringDB, they're mostly outbound [1]. I guess they already serve so much traffic that they don't need extra inbound capacity.

[1] https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/13335