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by fabian2k 1730 days ago
Am I reading this right that this is pretty much aiming to be a full competitor to S3? Or is this a more limited special purpose tool? I didn't really follow what Cloudflare is doing, so I only know them as a CDN. Are private buckets possible with this?

We all knew that the big players are really maximising their profits on the egress charges, so I can see that this left some potential for someone to step in. No egress charges at all still sound a bit too good to be true, but it would be nice as that's just one parameter less to think about.

Another interesting aspect are CloudFlare Workers. As far as I can tell they're not a full replacement for something like AWS Lambda if e.g. I need to do a bit heavier stuff on the data in R2. Being able to do heavier processing close to the actual data would be really interesting as well.