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The lower egress fees are super nice, but until someone can beat the Glacier Deep Archive pricing @ $0.00099 per GB I'm going to keep using that.

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Apples to oranges. Glacier Deep Archive and R2 (And really, all the other S3 tiers) serve entirely different use cases.

Great pricing, but a 48 hour retrieval window sucks for everything except things you basically never need to retrieve.

I'm not even talking backups here, if you need a backup at all, you probably need it ASAP. This is a governance product.

You do have the option for 12 hour retrieval; 48 hour is the discount restore option. We keep the latest backup in the Standard tier and use GDA for older backups.

That's not for data you Will actually use. You are only including one of the many cysts ( egress and retrieval) + it's really slow.

Cloudflare brings R2 to the edge.

Integration is an interesting problem though. With Scaleway's c14 cold storage, I felt the reasonable choices were use their S3 services for more or don't use their S3 oriented archive service at all. Moving everything around to different S3 services for different purposes seems like something I don't want to sign up for.

But it is interesting if you want to use different services of different clouds to pick the best ones for their use-case.

Egress is the cost that prevents that.

"Archive"

Archive is great for archiving. S3 standard tier is not for archiving.

My #1 concern is total monthly cost to store data, that's it.

Then your #2 concern should be "when will I want to access this data I store? How much of it? And how quickly?" because that's where Glacier can cost you a new house or car.

So for backups, stuff you don't need often (AND don't need to restore quickly), it's fine. Not so for most other use-cases.

Then R2 is worse for you than S3 as the entire point of R2 seems to be to do a different tradeoff than S3. You pay more for total storage but less for bandwidth with R2, and vice-versa for S3.

Where did you get that from? R2 is cheaper for storage too then s3

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