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Re:Will Cloudflare R2 Win Customers from Amazon S3? by nvahalik on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @04:41PM (#28778150)
This was the reason we ended up moving away from B2. It may be durable but their storage isn't a drop-in replacement for S3 or similar products. They are really an S3-compatible target for backup softwares.
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Re:Will Cloudflare R2 Win Customers from Amazon S3? by SiVal on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @08:25PM (#28780209)
This would be fine for an automated system that could schedule requests or could fail, wait 30min, and try again. But it would be unusable by a human working interactively. You would constantly get complaints and monitor warnings that your "system is down".

I don't mind services that cut price dramatically in exchange for only supporting some (not all) use cases. That can be a very attractive offer, but does Backblaze explicitly position B2 for non-interactive use cases?

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