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by rochester46 2236 days ago
Does AWS (and GCP and Azure) not do the exact same thing when transferring data out via Cloudfront (or their respective CDN)? Is Backblaze really special in that regard?
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budmang 2236 days ago
(backblaze ceo here) AWS is free to Cloudfront because that's an AWS service. AWS/GCP/Azure are not free (and quite expensive) to Cloudflare. Backblaze is free to Cloudflare.
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microcolonel 2236 days ago
And Cloudflare is also the winning reverse proxy caching provider, the one that people tend to use even despite transit charges to AWS/GCP/Azure.
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bvivek77 2236 days ago
Bit confusing. Need more clarity. Read 10 times. Pls recheck mr. ceo :)
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wrkronmiller 2236 days ago
Cloudfront costs a non-trivial amount of money per GB: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/
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rochester46 2236 days ago
How does that compare to Cloudflare? Is Cloudflare completely free for CDN? I can't find a clear pricing page.
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ksec 2236 days ago
https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/

Cloudflare dont charge per GB. They are more like per "feature" CDN.

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