This is an older thread about Cloudflare's S3 competitor that I came across when I was double checking the pricing for another comment, but it still seemed timely since the service moved from beta...
This is an older thread about Cloudflare's S3 competitor that I came across when I was double checking the pricing for another comment, but it still seemed timely since the service moved from beta to general availability fairly recently.
I'm not going to claim that anyone is "the good guy" when it comes to a fight between giant cloud providers who each control meaningful chunks of the entire internet, and obviously offering anything free and unlimited with the hope of it all averaging out is the kind of gamble that only an already massive player can take, but any competitive pressure against S3's 8000% markup on bandwidth is a good thing from where I'm standing.
This is the first time I'm hearing about R2. I love the S3 API compatibility. You can use Amazon's own code against them :D It's hilarious how much money the endpoint parameter will end up costing...
This is the first time I'm hearing about R2. I love the S3 API compatibility. You can use Amazon's own code against them :D It's hilarious how much money the endpoint parameter will end up costing them.
It's actually become something of a standard and there are actually a few S3 compatible object storage services! Not an exhaustive list and not in any particular order... Self-hosted Minio Ceph...
I love the S3 API compatibility. You can use Amazon's own code against them :D
It's actually become something of a standard and there are actually a few S3 compatible object storage services! Not an exhaustive list and not in any particular order...
This is an older thread about Cloudflare's S3 competitor that I came across when I was double checking the pricing for another comment, but it still seemed timely since the service moved from beta to general availability fairly recently.
I'm not going to claim that anyone is "the good guy" when it comes to a fight between giant cloud providers who each control meaningful chunks of the entire internet, and obviously offering anything free and unlimited with the hope of it all averaging out is the kind of gamble that only an already massive player can take, but any competitive pressure against S3's 8000% markup on bandwidth is a good thing from where I'm standing.
This is the first time I'm hearing about R2. I love the S3 API compatibility. You can use Amazon's own code against them :D It's hilarious how much money the
endpointparameter will end up costing them.It's actually become something of a standard and there are actually a few S3 compatible object storage services! Not an exhaustive list and not in any particular order...
Self-hosted
Cloud-y
Don’t forget Backblaze b2. Possibly the cheapest (for storage, not retrieval) s3 storage.