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this. the only way I can make profit with my web service is by using a third party low budget CDN as a caching layer. Even with that, S3 data transfer remains my biggest cost. if I could spare the time, I'd make a custom caching layer so that S3 is never hit at all except for upload, and is used only for disaster recovery.



Backblaze B2 is what you’re looking for.


And they are in the bandwidth alliance with cloudflare


those prices are certainly nicer!


I haven't done the math, but depending on your bandwidth requirements - you could try spinning up a couple vms at DigitalOcean/Linode/somewhere with bundled bandwidth, and then just run nginx as a cache with s3 as the backend.


Sounds like you just had a million dollar idea. Why not build it out and offer it to the many many other people in your position?


unfortunately my current and income-giving project takes priority. but if someone else makes it, I'll use it for sure.


You don't need to be a plumber to spot a leaky pipe




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