Cloudflare R2 storage: Rapid and reliable object storage, minus the egress fees
I recently did a pricing comparison of cloud object storage services for my article "How to Create a Very Inexpensive Serverless Database" (<a href="https://aws.plainenglish.io/very-inexpensive-serverless-database-6ed6df489ab6" rel="nofollow">https://aws.plainenglish.io/very-inexpensive-serverless-data...</a>). It describes using object storage as an inexpensive serverless key-value database.<p>Although egress (outbound network) can be a significant part of object storage expenses, if you are reading and writing small objects, per-request expenses can be much bigger. Cloudflare indicates that for low request rates there won't be any request fees, but doesn't state what they will charge for high request rates.<p>My article points out that the best deal when working with high request rates is to use services that don't charge per request such as DigitalOcean, Linode, and Vultr. If it's S3 that you want, even Amazon has recently joined the budget club with Lightsail Object Storage which has monthly plans of $1, $3, and $5 (250 GB storage and 500 GB egress) with no per-request fees.