R2 is great. Our GCS bill (almost all egress) jumped from a few hundred dollars a month to a couple thousand dollars a month last year due to a usage spike. We rush-migrated to R2 and now that part of the bill is $0.
I've heard some people here on HN say that it's slow, but I haven't noticed a difference. We're mainly dealing with multi-megabyte image files, so YMMV if you have a different workload.
awesome. I remember reading about this a while ago, but never tried. Since it has the same API i can imagine its not daunting as a multi-cloud infrastructure.
I guess permissions might be more complex, as in EC2 instance profiles wouldnt grant access, etc.
Just to make sure nobody is confused by this - R2 has the same API as S3, not GCS. We had to build a simple abstraction around GCS/S3 to perform the migration. But if you're migrating from S3, it's pretty much drop-in. We even use the AWS-provided S3 Java library (especially convenient for making signed URLs).
I've heard some people here on HN say that it's slow, but I haven't noticed a difference. We're mainly dealing with multi-megabyte image files, so YMMV if you have a different workload.