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by mgaunard 905 days ago
The whole point of S3 is that it is inexpensive. You don't want to pay premium money for terabytes of data that are usually invalidated everyone someone makes a significant change.
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Our blobs end up quite a bit smaller than that, and I can see using S3 for many build cache problems. In our case in-memory worked better with overflow to disk for large or infrequently used objects.

R2 is S3 to me, btw, or at least it’s the same API. Object storage as a model is really what I’m asking about. I’m genuinely glad to hear S3 was enough to be impactful.

I mostly saw R2 as a faster alternative to S3 with a compatible API.

But it looks like it could be competitive pricing-wise as well, especially if you need to access the same data across regions.