(I already found S3's per-request pricing weird for reading big files, but at least there it's limited to internal traffic not egress)
Imgur was created to be "an image hosting provider that doesn't suck", but that didn't last long. I always figured the reason why Imgur turned to shit was because they needed to drive traffic to their front page so they can serve ads to pay the bills, but I imagine egress was their biggest cost.
If egress was free, it could massively reduce their costs.
Better yet, seeing as how you get free transfers between Backblaze and Cloudflare, I wonder if the 10ms cpu limit on free workers (or 50ms paid) would be enough to do the entire process on CF's servers.
"To make this easy for you, without requiring you to change any of your tooling, Cloudflare R2 will include automatic migration from other S3-compatible cloud storage services. Migrations are designed to be dead simple. After specifying an existing storage bucket, R2 will serve requests for objects from the existing bucket, egressing the object only once before copying and serving from R2."
It's actually 30 seconds these days (for Workers Unbound pricing model).
> do the entire process on CF's servers.
Entire process of what, exactly? If you are just streaming the bytes through, that takes negligible CPU time, so yes, you could do it on the free plan.
Couple that with the low latency KV and it all shouldn't be too hard to get going! On that note, I hope the overall latency of R2 isn't too bad. I assume it'll all work with CF caching though. B2 was never too good in regard to latency.
I wonder... would the TOS allow storing a huge video on B2, proxying it on the fly to R2, redirecting the user to that, then deleting it afterwards? It does say you'd be charged by gb-month stored...
Considering data is replicated across several hard drives, servers and electricity aren’t free, etc. I would guess that Cloudflare won’t break even on storage until several months of utilization (unlike Amazon who probably breaks even on day 1).
Free egrees is weird. In particular using R2 to offer videos or other big downloads appears to be unrealistically cheap.
A $1/TB offer would still be very appealing, while allowing Cloudflare to break even on traffic-heavy use-cases.
> Cloudflare R2 (beta) documentation
> Cloudflare R2 Storage allows developers to store large amounts of unstructured data without the costly egress bandwidth fees associated with typical cloud storage services.
Is is merely (S-1)(3-1)?
