{"id":623,"date":"2021-09-30T15:47:40","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T21:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/rstephens\/?p=623"},"modified":"2021-10-01T09:10:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T15:10:32","slug":"a-new-strategy-r2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/rstephens\/2021\/09\/30\/a-new-strategy-r2\/","title":{"rendered":"“A New Strategy, R2”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Recreation<\/p>\n

As part of their ongoing ‘birthday week’ announcements, Cloudflare announced a new object store service, R2<\/a>, that has garnered attention for several reasons.<\/p>\n

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  1. Adding unstructured storage to their portfolio will nicely augment Cloudflare’s existing platform. It has the opportunity to make the CDN more compelling and give Cloudflare Workers (a serverless platform hosted on its edge network) more functionality. <\/li>\n
  2. They are implementing the service using the S3 API, meaning that AWS customers can easily migrate files to Cloudflare.<\/li>\n
  3. They’re pricing the base storage rates competitively with cloud providers, with the additional kicker that<\/li>\n
  4. Cloudflare won’t charge any egress fees<\/em> on the data served from R2. (This is the biggest element of the announcement.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Corey Quinn breaks down what no egress fees mean for customers<\/a>, and it’s worth taking a look at his analysis because the potential savings are considerable.<\/p>\n

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    One final point: Now let\u2019s remember that the internet is 1-to-many. If 1 million people download that 1GB this month, my cost with @cloudflare<\/a> R2 this way rounds up to 13\u00a2. With @awscloud<\/a> S3 it\u2019s $59,247.52. <\/p>\n

    THAT is why people are losing their minds over this.<\/p>\n

    — Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig) September 29, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n