Announcing Cloudflare R2 Storage: Rapid and Reliable Object Storage, minus the egress fees
Sep 28, 2021Greg McKeon

Summary
This post announces Cloudflare R2 Storage, a new object storage service. R2 offers S3 API compatibility, zero-cost egress bandwidth, and competitive pricing for storage and operations. It features automatic data tiering for performance and cost optimization, a migration service from S3-compatible storage, and plans for multi-region storage with jurisdictional controls. R2 is designed for high durability (eleven 9s) and reliability, with redundancy across regions. It integrates deeply with Cloudflare Workers for dynamic data transformation and manipulation, enabling use cases like IoT data streaming and CDN asset storage.
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