Re:Canva saves millions annually in Amazon S3 costs
by re-thc on Monday June 19, 2023 @04:55AM
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> Cloudflare R2 charges zero egress fees.
The scarier part is Canva actually does use Cloudflare CDN, so it's not so much the cost of adding a new provider. It's just that the CDN team that manages the Cloudflare account is likely a different team :)
Re:Canva saves millions annually in Amazon S3 costs
by sofixa on Monday June 19, 2023 @08:38AM
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The much more likely answer is that R2 is too new compared to when they started (announced in 2021) and switching from S3 to it is probably not trivial at Canva's scale.
The scarier part is Canva actually does use Cloudflare CDN, so it's not so much the cost of adding a new provider. It's just that the CDN team that manages the Cloudflare account is likely a different team :)
Too much isolation, silos and politics...