Cloudflare R2
Cloudflare's S3-compatible object storage service with no egress fees.
Liked for having no egress fees123 and simple S3-compatible storage that saves money compared with AWS S3,456 and it fits neatly with Workers and the rest of Cloudflare's platform.789 Complaints are rare; the main caveat is that commenters wanting a European provider point to alternatives.1011
Why people recommend it
No egress fees · 3
Commenters repeatedly cite the lack of egress fees as the main draw.
“We use R2 (not affiliated) which doesn't have egress fees.”
“R2, the S3 equivalent, has no egress fees so easy buy in.”
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“We use R2 and Wasabi as our storage backends...so we obviously like them”
Cloudflare integration · 3
Works well alongside Workers, D1 and Containers, including over Cloudflare's internal network.
“R2 is storage”
“R2 mounted as a local filesystem via FUSE (tigrisfs)”
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“R2 for self hosted OpenStreetmap tiles, encrypted user pet records and images”
S3 compatibility · 3
Described as simple, S3-compatible object storage that works globally.
“R2 is a simple S3-compatible object storage”
“R2 (S3 compatible storage) just works globally as well.”
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“R2, the S3 equivalent, has no egress fees so easy buy in.”
Lower cost · 3
Users report saving money after moving from AWS S3, with low costs at scale.
“I've saved plenty of money by migrating from AWS S3 to Cloudflare's R2”
“We use R2 and Wasabi as our storage backends...so we obviously like them”
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“R2 for self hosted OpenStreetmap tiles, encrypted user pet records and images”
Backup target · 2
Used as a backup destination, including with restic and for SQLite databases.
“Just switched from Backblaze to Cloudflare R2 (using restic).”
“The sqlite database is backed up to Cloudflare R2”
Caveats and dissent
European alternatives · 2
Commenters seeking European or sovereign hosting suggest providers other than Cloudflare.
“Regarding Cloudflare r2, there might be many but I like the idea of Upcloud”
“R2 (S3 compatible storage) just works globally as well.”
Reliability questions · 1
One recent switcher wondered whether R2 has the same issues they hit with their previous provider.
“Just switched from Backblaze to Cloudflare R2 (using restic).”
Often compared with
Amazon S3
Amazon SESThreads where it came up
- Show HN: Independent Vet – Find locally owned vets (and corporate ones) near you 1 mention
- Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams 1 mention
- S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past 1 mention
- Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare 1 mention
- Fast drilldown dashboards from a single Parquet file 1 mention
- Ask HN: How do you host your vibe coded tools/sites? 1 mention
Data: cloudflare-r2.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 17
“R2 for self hosted OpenStreetmap tiles, encrypted user pet records and images”
“We use R2 (not affiliated) which doesn't have egress fees.”
“We use R2 and Wasabi as our storage backends...so we obviously like them”
“R2 (S3 compatible storage) just works globally as well.”
“I used R2 partly because I wanted to see how it behaved”
“R2 is storage”
“hosted on Cloudflare (R2 for audio files)”
“The sqlite database is backed up to Cloudflare R2”
“We have a Cloudflare R2-backed Document Store for managing them”
“I've saved plenty of money by migrating from AWS S3 to Cloudflare's R2”
“Just switched from Backblaze to Cloudflare R2 (using restic).”
“R2 mounted as a local filesystem via FUSE (tigrisfs)”
“R2, the S3 equivalent, has no egress fees so easy buy in.”
“R2 is a simple S3-compatible object storage”
“Regarding Cloudflare r2, there might be many but I like the idea of Upcloud”
“regular reverse proxying and R2 still works, as we use those”
“I've wanted to explore R2”