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by mannanj 68 days ago
R2 is pretty darn hard to beat. No egress, and only like $.57 per million read operations. If you're running a video streaming use case (and not using terabytes and caching or abusing your bandwidth) I found no one else compares.

Does anyone have thoughts or disagree on this in terms of pricing and cost effectiveness?
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jrochkind1 68 days ago
When you serve video from R2, you do it directly from R2 to client, not with an additional Cloudflare CDN in front, and that works fine? I have been trying to understand video and R2.
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mannanj 66 days ago
You can serve the video through the CDN, Cloudflare allows it though it must be under 512mb to cacheable (so split the video). I had read in a use case that someone with over 25tb of bandwidth in a month of like 300gb disk of video was sent a letter by Cloudflare to disable CDN/caching, so I think this would be fine.

Im still learning the whole thing myself and plan to play with it this weekend and use it for a client site. Feel free to ping me again somehow in the future to see how it turned out.

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