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I just want to make sure: this means that if you are using cloudflare in front of, for example, backblaze to serve static assets, that you will have 0 egress fees to pay? No catch?

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You would get zero egress from Backblaze, but Cloudflare (or whomever is the eyeball facing provider) will still meter your bandwidth/requests/etc at their edge -> client.

Cloudflare offers unmetered bandwidth, so this should remove any bandwidth costs completely.

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200172656-D...

Yeah, that's why this is almost unbelievable. What a day. Thanks for the reverse birthday present

That's not quite true. Some of their products (Argo; their virtual backbone service) bills on GB; others on requests. That's still going to apply, and it's also going to apply for larger customers on contract.

Once you reach a certain level of traffic (a lot of TBs/month) going through their reverse proxy they will have someone from sales reach out to you and make you to start paying.

Wait, does this mean it's now possible to get completely free egress from B2 to all of the other providers listed? (and also the public internet via cloudflare?)

That would massively reduce potential B2 costs...

Yes.

>Wait, does this mean it's now possible to get completely free egress from B2 to all of the other providers listed? (and also the public internet via cloudflare?)

Can some one please explain this like I am three years old. For example, Free transfer from B2 to Linode? And from Linode to Cloudflare? I know bandwidth was suppose to be cheap, and many Cloud providers are charging a lot for their profits, but this completely eliminate it.

When something is too good to be true, you cant help to be skeptical about it.

Correct. There's no catch.

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