Cloudflare R2 storage: Rapid and reliable object storage, minus the egress fees
This is interesting ...<p>For the longest time we tried to convince people that they should have an off-amazon archive of their S3 data ... we even ran an ads to that effect in 2012[1].<p>The (obvious) reason this isn&#x27;t compelling is the cost of egress.  It&#x27;s just (relatively) too expensive to offload your S3 assets to some third party on a regular basis.<p>So if R2 is S3 with no egress, suddenly there is a value proposition again.<p>Further, unlike in 2012, in 2021 we have <i>really great tooling</i> in the form of &#x27;rclone&#x27;[2][3] which allows you to move data from cloud to cloud without involving your own bandwidth.<p>[1] The tagline was &quot;Your infrastructure is on AWS and your backups are on AWS.  You&#x27;re doing it wrong.&quot;<p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rclone.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rclone.org&#x2F;</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rsync.net&#x2F;resources&#x2F;howto&#x2F;rclone.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rsync.net&#x2F;resources&#x2F;howto&#x2F;rclone.html</a>