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Re:Will Cloudflare R2 Win Customers from Amazon S3? by Smerity on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @04:44PM (#28778184)
You're right, I misread it and now can't edit my comment. This puts it all in quite a similar position to Wasabi[1] who have a 1:1 storage:transfer ratio per month and a 90 day minimum storage duration as well. In fact, their price per terabyte is almost exactly the same ($5.99 for Wasabi vs $6 for Rstor).

It's a shame as I love aspects of this type of storage service, even with the caveats, but they're not useful if there's no way to pay more for excess transfer. Luckily I think R2 fits that requirement (though paying for more operations vs paying for more transfer).

[1]: https://wasabi.com/paygo-pricing-faq/

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Re:Will Cloudflare R2 Win Customers from Amazon S3? by Eugr on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @05:04PM (#28778391)
That's interesting... When talking to their reps I mentioned Wasabi and asked if they have similar limitations and they said "no". I wonder if enterprise customers are treated differently?
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Re:Will Cloudflare R2 Win Customers from Amazon S3? by Smerity on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @07:14PM (#28779673)
From the pricing page I linked to[1]:

> There are no charges for outbound data transfer when using a dedicated network connection to the RSTOR network and direct peering is established. These connections are charged separately. To find out more please contact us.

I would imagine for enterprise customers you might either be using direct peering / similar or they're able to charge based upon ballpark bandwidth usage. Otherwise I'm unsure as it does seem quite in line with Wasabi otherwise.

[1]: https://console.rstor.space/pricing

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