Re:Will Cloudflare R2 Win Customers from Amazon S3?
by mst on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @11:47PM
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> R2 coming out with $0 egress is somewhere between unbelievable and literal-miracle.
Not necessarily.
A nearlyfreespeech noted when they changed to a charge-by-incoming-bandwidth model, links are still often bought symmetrically and for them the thing that eats the most bandwidth is incoming DDoS attacks, not legitimate traffic.
It seems to me that Cloudflare are likely to be in this situation except even more so.
Re:Will Cloudflare R2 Win Customers from Amazon S3?
by sillysaurusx on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @03:54PM
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(@CameronNemo: If you want to chat about it, you'll have to DM me on twitter. As you see, comments here about it are instakilled.)
I suppose my only skepticism is "but how fast can I egress?" -- if the bandwidth is 100x slower than GCP, it might dampen my enthusiasm a little bit. But honestly I'd still take a 100x slowdown if it means I can do long term archival without paying $200 just to download the data, soooo....
Anyway, cheers, and thanks for doing impactful work!