Will Cloudflare R2 Win Customers from Amazon S3?

Re:Will Cloudflare R2 Win Customers from Amazon S3? by heipei on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @01:29PM (#28775800)

Slight miscalculation which should have been obvious:

"For example, Backblaze B2’s free operations threshold is capped at 2,500 a day, and if R2 simply let you make a GetObject request every second of every day, that would be something like 86,400 FREE daily Gets, which would cost ~$335 daily on B2 or $122,000 a year."

Backblaze B2 Class B operations are priced at $0.004 per 10k operations which the author did not take into account, so the calculation above is off by a factor of 10,000. The real cost for 1 GET per second for a whole year on Backblaze B2 is $12.59.

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Re:Will Cloudflare R2 Win Customers from Amazon S3? by cloudfalcon on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @02:03PM (#28776205)

You're right. This is a silly mistake on my part in rushing out this piece. I apologize. Thanks for pointing this out -I've since taken out the paragraph.

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Re:Will Cloudflare R2 Win Customers from Amazon S3? by _zoltan_ on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @02:06PM (#28776237)

why rush a piece?

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Re:Will Cloudflare R2 Win Customers from Amazon S3? by cloudfalcon on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @02:09PM (#28776271)

Cloudflare R2 is topical right now - that was the motivation. Not saying it was the right strategy to do so (clearly not given the mistake).

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Re:Will Cloudflare R2 Win Customers from Amazon S3? by cloudfalcon on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @02:28PM (#28776480)

I'm following good form. No silent edits were made. There has been an Author's Note in that paragraph the entire time since the change acknowledging the miscalculation.

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Re:Will Cloudflare R2 Win Customers from Amazon S3? by dboreham on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @02:08PM (#28776258)

More clicks?

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Re:Will Cloudflare R2 Win Customers from Amazon S3? by sam0x17 on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @01:59PM (#28776152)

I wonder how this compares with Wasabi. I was very bullish on them a few years ago.

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Re:Will Cloudflare R2 Win Customers from Amazon S3? by whoknowswhat11 on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @09:25PM (#28780670)

I've tried a bunch of the cheap / unlimited players. Any claim that they offer what S3 offers is usually totally and completely false. Either bandwidth is not actually unlimited or its terrible quality, or storage is not reliable or or or.

With S3 I've never had a problem with data loss. Eventual consistency stuff was totally annoying back when that was the way they did things, though that was documented. Dev support is strong if you are paying for it if you have a config issue. WORM support is great in key areas (regulatory, ransomeware protection for backup durability etc).

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Re:Will Cloudflare R2 Win Customers from Amazon S3? by brightball on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @11:07PM (#28781384)

There are cheap players and there is Cloudflare. Cloudflare is on a very different level.

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Re:Will Cloudflare R2 Win Customers from Amazon S3? by nightpool on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @06:42PM (#28779402)

Wasabi has the most horrendous reliability record of any provider I've ever worked with. Uploads will be broken for days at a time with no status posted, downloads will flake, it's just not a competitive solution for consumer-facing storage.

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Re:Will Cloudflare R2 Win Customers from Amazon S3? by sparc24 on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @04:53PM (#28778285)

Wasabi is a clown show brought to you by the Carbonite guys. I wouldn't trust it at all given their track record.

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Re:Will Cloudflare R2 Win Customers from Amazon S3? by jjeaff on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @11:28PM (#28781500)

What is bad about their track record?

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