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by luhn 1713 days ago
This article touches on the one major unanswered question I have about R2: CloudFlare's CDN ToS make it clear CF is meant to host websites and APIs, not content downloads [1]. Does R2 have similar ToS? It's reasonable that CF doesn't want R2 customers that use 500MB of paid storage and 500TB of free bandwidth, so what is acceptable use?

[1] The Services are offered primarily as a platform to cache and serve web pages and websites. Unless explicitly included as part of a Paid Service purchased by you, you agree to use the Services solely for the purpose of (i) serving web pages as viewed through a web browser or other functionally equivalent applications, including rendering Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) or other functional equivalents, and (ii) serving web APIs subject to the restrictions set forth in this Section 2.8. Use of the Services for serving video or a disproportionate percentage of pictures, audio files, or other non-HTML content is prohibited, unless purchased separately as part of a Paid Service or expressly allowed under our Supplemental Terms for a specific Service.

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The CEO (eastdakota) has previously said the clause does not apply to services like Cloudflare workers on this very site (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20791605). I also think the phrase “Unless explicitly included as part of a Paid Service purchased by you” carries a lot of weight here.
Cloudflare's CEO (eastdakota) has said publicly that that section doesn't apply to R2 and that they'll update their TOS to clarify: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28682885