[doctorfoo]

this. the only way I can make profit with my web service is by using a third party low budget CDN as a caching layer. Even with that, S3 data transfer remains my biggest cost. if I could spare the time, I'd make a custom caching layer so that S3 is never hit at all except for upload, and is used only for disaster recovery.

[toomuchtodo]

Backblaze B2 is what you’re looking for.

[ptman]

And they are in the bandwidth alliance with cloudflare

[doctorfoo]

those prices are certainly nicer!

[johntash]

I haven't done the math, but depending on your bandwidth requirements - you could try spinning up a couple vms at DigitalOcean/Linode/somewhere with bundled bandwidth, and then just run nginx as a cache with s3 as the backend.

[User23]

Sounds like you just had a million dollar idea. Why not build it out and offer it to the many many other people in your position?

[doctorfoo]

unfortunately my current and income-giving project takes priority. but if someone else makes it, I'll use it for sure.

[adtac]

You don't need to be a plumber to spot a leaky pipe