Something of interest to this group: <https://blog...
# dev-metaflowe
early-motorcycle-1160
10/01/2021, 12:00 AMSomething of interest to this group: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-r2-object-storage/
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early-motorcycle-1160
10/01/2021, 12:02 AMAnyone looked into this further and think how it may compare to S3? The no egress costs seem very charming esp. when clients of Metaflow don't have to worry about moving their data from AWS to GCP (although quite infrequent atm)
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straight-shampoo-11124
10/01/2021, 12:02 AMtotally! imagine
python myflow.py --datastore=r2 runstraight-shampoo-11124
10/01/2021, 12:08 AMthe devil is in the details though: Other companies provide S3-compatible object stores too, like Backblaze B2 (creative naming here!), so just an S3-compatible object store isn't a unique value prop. There are reasons to believe that Cloudflare is actually able to implement and operate it well, thanks to their existing infrastructure, but it remains to be seen.
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average-beach-28850
10/01/2021, 12:17 AMpretty good thread https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1443028078196711426
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straight-shampoo-11124
10/01/2021, 12:23 AMI wish there will be other reasons to be excited about R2 too than the egress price. If it is just about egress but write performance, large object throughput etc. suck then it sounds more like a CDN (which would make sense for Cloudflare but makes it less relevant as a comparison point to S3 in general)
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