[sdfhbdf]

Very exciting. Object storage is getting really competitive and i love the naming scheme alliance - S3, B2 (Backblaze) and now R2, who will do one with a “1”?

On a serious note i’m wondering about the signed urls and ACL capabilities of the cloudflare offering cause this is something we use.

I’m also interested does R2 replace S3 and CloudFront at the same time? That’d be nice and one headache less.

[sfeng]

The Cloudflare offering supports their serverless Workers compute which would make signed URLs and ACLs trivial. Cloudflare certainly would also be replacing CloudFront.

[drip-egg-jack]

> Our vision for R2 includes multi-region storage that automatically replicates objects to the locations they’re frequently requested from.

Seems like they are going to automatically replicate data to other regions. Something like tebi.io is doing for a long time already, it is a geo-distributed S3-compatible storage that is replicating data across the world to reduce read/write latency and increase speed.

If it is done right, this might increase download speeds by a lot especially for big infrequently accessed files.

[slim]

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