Do you use S3/R2 as a data lake?

Question

Curious to learn HN's opinion, what is your number 1 use case? What kind of queries do you perform?

sgt101 · Accepted Answer

I use it (and GCS) as staging storage. When we bring in data it often ends up on the block store before it gets stuffed in BQ or Redshift or whatever Spark alike we are using at the time.