[aftbit]

How is data stored in this tier? Is it just on big slow SMR disks?

[tills13]

Anecdotally, we have found R2 to be nearly half as slow to respond as the same request to S3 _proxied through Cloudflare_.

So... something isn't right here. Maybe a mechanical turk where a live human is fetching the object using Windows Explorer behind the scenes?

[SahAssar]

Did you mean "half as fast"? The way you worded it sounds like you mean to say that s3 is faster, but it says that r2 is twice as fast as s3.

[tills13]

Apologies, yes. Half as fast. S3 was typically around 20-40ms, R2 was typically around 60-80ms iirc

[djhn]

Any chance you could convert ‘nearly half as slow’ to a percentage of the original response time? This reads like a reading comprehension puzzle and I don’t even know if my hunch is correct.