Cloudflare announced four major new features that could disrupt industries

Re:Cloudflare announced four major new features that could d... by x0x0 on Monday October 04, 2021 @12:25PM (#28748961)

It's more than modestly lower though in some use cases.

https://twitter.com/quinnypig/status/1443028078196711426

Corey compares the cost of storing 1gb of data in s3 vs r2 and serving it to the internet:

> 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 [$53,891.16]

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Re:Cloudflare announced four major new features that could d... by wpietri on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @12:44AM (#28755574)

Who do you see as current AWS customers paying bills like that? My guess is that's very niche. People who expect to use petabytes of bandwidth rarely just throw things on AWS and eat the bills. And if they do, then it sounds like they wouldn't be moved to switch anyhow.

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Re:Cloudflare announced four major new features that could d... by x0x0 on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @12:03PM (#28761299)

Not current aws customers, but a friend's company basically built out their own cdn to avoid these charges. They're something like twitch -- lots of videos, lots of viewers.

Paying a fraction (there will obviously be charges beyond the $.09) but still a fraction of aws charges would have been revolutionary for them.

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Re:Cloudflare announced four major new features that could d... by wpietri on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @07:01PM (#28766827)

I think most people in that bucket knows not to serve in bulk from AWS and so just use existing CDNs. (Or, as you say, builds their own.) A good fraction of Cloudflare's business has to be fronting things that are in AWS.

For this to be disruptive, there has to be a significant amount of business that will move from AWS to Cloudflare because of this change.

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