Have You Migrated from AWS S3 to Cloudflare R2?

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If so, how did you do it? How did it go? How are the savings? I have TBs of data I need to progressively replicate to R2. The original blog post on R2 talked about an automatic migration tool for S3 to R2, but I find no mention of it anywhere outside of that blog post.

andrewstuart · Accepted Answer

It&rsquo;ll cost you $90 per terabyte to exit from S3.If I&rsquo;m reading this right, the first 100GB per month out of AWS is now free?https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-price...So you can subtract $9.

zmj · Answer

R2's compatibility with the S3 API still has a ways to go. I tried to port over a relatively trivial app written on the AWS SDK and found:
* Request header signing is not supported (ok, fine)
* Tagging is not supported (showstopper)

edmundsauto · Answer

How often do you use bandwidth use from those TB? IIRC, s3 can be cheaper b/c of the tiered service options, but if you are eating in the bandwidth bill from amazon, you may see joy from R2.

jakedata · Answer

You can implement compression in an AWS Lambda function. You might save some money by compressing your data before egress. I don't know if R2 has a similar unzip function.

chrisandchris · Answer

We migrated from S3 to Minio, an S3-compatible storage. However, we mostly store backups (6-8 TB) there so we don't care about five 9s or performance that much (if we get 80% out of it, it is good enough).Pricing is far better with that amount of data if you self-host.

Have You Migrated from AWS S3 to Cloudflare R2?

If so, how did you do it? How did it go? How are the savings? I have TBs of data I need to progressively replicate to R2. The original blog post on R2 talked about an automatic migration tool for S3 to R2, but I find no mention of it anywhere outside of that blog post.

It’ll cost you $90 per terabyte to exit from S3.
If I’m reading this right, the first 100GB per month out of AWS is now free?
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-price...
So you can subtract $9.

R2's compatibility with the S3 API still has a ways to go. I tried to port over a relatively trivial app written on the AWS SDK and found:
* Request header signing is not supported (ok, fine)
* Tagging is not supported (showstopper)

How often do you use bandwidth use from those TB? IIRC, s3 can be cheaper b/c of the tiered service options, but if you are eating in the bandwidth bill from amazon, you may see joy from R2.

You can implement compression in an AWS Lambda function. You might save some money by compressing your data before egress. I don't know if R2 has a similar unzip function.

We migrated from S3 to Minio, an S3-compatible storage. However, we mostly store backups (6-8 TB) there so we don't care about five 9s or performance that much (if we get 80% out of it, it is good enough).
Pricing is far better with that amount of data if you self-host.

Have You Migrated from AWS S3 to Cloudflare R2?

If so, how did you do it? How did it go? How are the savings? I have TBs of data I need to progressively replicate to R2. The original blog post on R2 talked about an automatic migration tool for S3 to R2, but I find no mention of it anywhere outside of that blog post.

It’ll cost you $90 per terabyte to exit from S3.If I’m reading this right, the first 100GB per month out of AWS is now free?https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-price...So you can subtract $9.

R2's compatibility with the S3 API still has a ways to go. I tried to port over a relatively trivial app written on the AWS SDK and found:* Request header signing is not supported (ok, fine)* Tagging is not supported (showstopper)

How often do you use bandwidth use from those TB? IIRC, s3 can be cheaper b/c of the tiered service options, but if you are eating in the bandwidth bill from amazon, you may see joy from R2.

You can implement compression in an AWS Lambda function. You might save some money by compressing your data before egress. I don't know if R2 has a similar unzip function.

We migrated from S3 to Minio, an S3-compatible storage. However, we mostly store backups (6-8 TB) there so we don't care about five 9s or performance that much (if we get 80% out of it, it is good enough).Pricing is far better with that amount of data if you self-host.

It’ll cost you $90 per terabyte to exit from S3.
If I’m reading this right, the first 100GB per month out of AWS is now free?
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-price...
So you can subtract $9.

R2's compatibility with the S3 API still has a ways to go. I tried to port over a relatively trivial app written on the AWS SDK and found:
* Request header signing is not supported (ok, fine)
* Tagging is not supported (showstopper)

We migrated from S3 to Minio, an S3-compatible storage. However, we mostly store backups (6-8 TB) there so we don't care about five 9s or performance that much (if we get 80% out of it, it is good enough).
Pricing is far better with that amount of data if you self-host.