Re:Will Cloudflare R2 Win Customers from Amazon S3?
by GordonS on Friday October 08, 2021 @02:39PM
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Sorry to side track things, but I have a somewhat related Cloudflare question!
I'm using Azure, rather than AWS, and I hope R2 is available for Azure eventually too.
In the mean time, I came across a Cloudflare blog post from earlier this year that said you can use Azure's preferred routing feature to point to Cloudflare, which will result in "substantially cheaper" egress bandwidth fees. Sounded good, but when I looked at Azure's bandwidth pricing it looks like egress routed through Cloudflare is barely any cheaper, only 9% or so :(
The question: am I missing something, or is that paltry reduction really all Azure is doing?
I'm using Azure, rather than AWS, and I hope R2 is available for Azure eventually too.
In the mean time, I came across a Cloudflare blog post from earlier this year that said you can use Azure's preferred routing feature to point to Cloudflare, which will result in "substantially cheaper" egress bandwidth fees. Sounded good, but when I looked at Azure's bandwidth pricing it looks like egress routed through Cloudflare is barely any cheaper, only 9% or so :(
The question: am I missing something, or is that paltry reduction really all Azure is doing?