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		toomuchtodo on Oct 6, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Will Cloudflare R2 Win Customers from Amazon S3? Bandwidth is very cheap [1], cloud providers gouge. Cloudflare is using this product to disrupt other cloud providers and pull business from them. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28682237

foobiekr on Oct 6, 2021 [–]

Yes basically. In networking everybody except for people living on a CSP buy bandwith/ports not bits moved. AWS egress is fabulously profitable specifically because they’re ripping you off vs even a very expensive colo.

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