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9¢/GB is theft, honestly.

I’m not sure if R2 is sustainable but AWS’s egress rates are outrageous. The flip side though is that high egress rates make quite a few problems, like customers using the service to distribute pirate copies of media, go away.

Oddly, Cloudflare is part of the Bandwidth Alliance - a consortium of 19 companies who want to reduce bandwidth costs.

Backblaze, an online storage and backup company, is also a member. They charge $.005/GB/month for S3 compatible storage. And if you map and access a bucket through Cloudflare there is no egress fee.

So it's possible to store and access your files at 1/3 the price of Cloudflare alone by using Cloudflare (plus Backblaze).

The bandwidth alliance only applies to serving web content. Backblaze and R2 are not exactly aimed at the same market

Also on the other side the ISPs are salivating at that kind of money and trying to force the large companies into paying more for the bandwidth the end users are already paying for.

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