The Cloudflare R2 Storage is now Online. Announcing this on its official blog, Cloudflare said it now allows the ability to store large amounts of unstructured data, slashing the egress bandwidth fees associated with typical Cloud storage services to zero.
Cloudflare R2 Storage includes full S3 API compatibility, working with existing tools & applications as built. Traditional object storage charges developers for 3 things: bandwidth, storage size & storage operations.
R2 builds on Cloudflare’s commitment to the Bandwidth Alliance, providing zero-cost egress for stored objects — no matter your request rate. Egress bandwidth is often the largest charge for developers utilizing object storage & is also the hardest charge to predict. Eliminating it is a huge win for open-access to data stored in the Cloud, claimed Cloudflare.
R2 will zero-rate infrequent storage operations under a threshold — currently planned to be in the single digit requests per second range. Above this range, R2 will charge significantly less per-operation than the major providers.
Our object storage will be extremely inexpensive for infrequent access and yet capable of and cheaper than major incumbent providers at scale.
– Cloudflare
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