[StratusBen]

Really curious to see how this goes. If they live up to the following paragraph, that's pretty game-changing:

>> This cheaper price doesn’t come with reduced scalability. Behind the scenes, R2 automatically and intelligently manages the tiering of data to drive both performance at peak load and low-cost for infrequently requested objects. We’ve gotten rid of complex, manual tiering policies in favor of what developers have always wanted out of object storage: limitless scale at the lowest possible cost.

The amount of effort it takes to understand and account for S3 Intelligent Tiering is somewhat mind-blowing so to get rid of all of that (and the corresponding fees) would be really nice and TheWayThingsShouldBe™ for the customer -- on top of that most users just don't even know S3 Intelligent Tiering exists so it'll be great if Cloudflare just handles that automatically.

We at https://vantage.sh/ (disclosure, I'm the Co-Founder and CEO) recently launched a cross-provider cost recommendation for CloudFront Egress to Cloudflare which was really popular and I can imagine doing something similar for S3 -> R2 once it is live and we are able to vet it.

[blackandsqueaky]

Does Vantage offer comparisons for Backblaze B2, OVH etc?

When looking at object storage, tail latency is probably the single most overlooked metric, and the most material differentiator between providers after bandwidth costs. Don't sweat the cent spent on storing an object, worry about the cost of the 6,000,0000 copies of it you'll ship after it's stored.

As for bandwidth, CloudFlare becomes uninteresting the moment your account starts to see any real consumption, even AWS are easier to negotiate with.

[StratusBen]

We are working a more holistic approach to ingesting and providing recommendations from companies like Backblaze, OVH, etc. in addition to many, many more providers for other AWS services. The goal being that we can give customers the tools they need to get visibility on what options exist and take action themselves from there.

[danielheath]

What's "real consumption"? I'm getting 1tb egress / day on a $20/mo plan.

[blackandsqueaky]

> What's "real consumption"

Workloads you couldn't host on a cable modem

[Dylan16807]

Your average cable modem can't do a good job of hosting much more than 50GB/day. Would you say that 1TB/day is well into 'real' then? You seem dismissive of that much.