For the longest time we tried to convince people that they should have an off-amazon archive of their S3 data ... we even ran an ads to that effect in 2012[1].
The (obvious) reason this isn't compelling is the cost of egress. It's just (relatively) too expensive to offload your S3 assets to some third party on a regular basis.
So if R2 is S3 with no egress, suddenly there is a value proposition again.
Further, unlike in 2012, in 2021 we have really great tooling in the form of 'rclone'[2][3] which allows you to move data from cloud to cloud without involving your own bandwidth.
[1] The tagline was "Your infrastructure is on AWS and your backups are on AWS. You're doing it wrong."
For the longest time we tried to convince people that they should have an off-amazon archive of their S3 data ... we even ran an ads to that effect in 2012[1].
The (obvious) reason this isn't compelling is the cost of egress. It's just (relatively) too expensive to offload your S3 assets to some third party on a regular basis.
So if R2 is S3 with no egress, suddenly there is a value proposition again.
Further, unlike in 2012, in 2021 we have really great tooling in the form of 'rclone'[2][3] which allows you to move data from cloud to cloud without involving your own bandwidth.
[1] The tagline was "Your infrastructure is on AWS and your backups are on AWS. You're doing it wrong."
[2] https://rclone.org/
[3] https://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/rclone.html