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by thecodrr 1731 days ago
Not sure why this is more appealing than Wasabi? As far as I can see, Wasabi is cheaper, has great speeds, fantastic S3 compatibility, their dashboard is a joy to use so what is the actual "special" thing here? I mean sure, it's a good thing to have more competition but the way everyone here is describing the situation makes it seem as if Cloudflare is going to be the cheapest & the best.
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https://wasabi.com/rcs-pricing-faq/

>If your monthly egress data transfer is greater than your active storage volume, then your storage use case is not a good fit for Wasabi’s free egress policy

>If your use case exceeds the guidelines of our free egress policy on a regular basis, we reserve the right to limit or suspend your service

Unless I am misreading, wasabi can shut you down if your egress is high.

My understanding with Wasabi is that it is only intended for up to 100% egress. It doesn't look like r2 has this limitation. Though I can't imagine egress is actually completely free beyond a certain point.
1 - Their portfolio is bigger. Making it easier for existing clients to adopt. Eg. Why a lot of companies use AWS.

This product seems a good fit for their cloudflare workers.

2 - Cloudflare is going heavy on egress costs. Which they have a lot of extra opportunity costs, comparible to the big 3 cloud providers and they are putting their "weight" in good use:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance-charges-forwa...

Egress/ingress costs is also important for pricing fyi.

3 - Cloudflare has a known good reputation for their services ( eg. Uptime and costs) + an active community. ( Eg. Check their blog )

Tbh. I didn't knew Wasabi, will check them out though.

4 - Their datacenters are at the edge. Hard to compete on that physical advantage in terms of speed.

Ps. Yes, I could be considered a fan, similar to AMD in the past ( still do fyi).

I believe the minimum object retention time is 3 months, which killed it for our use case. I.e. create a file today, delete it today, and pay for it for 3 months.
Wasabi is actually pretty great. +1 on this.