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Field guides for choosing storage

Work from the workload to the architecture, then to the bill.

These guides use illustrative workloads and explicit assumptions. They are editorial analysis; we have not benchmarked the providers.

Amazon S3 vs Cloudflare R2

Compare regional integration and direct-delivery economics without assuming the products are interchangeable.

Compare stable backups, changing objects and full restores—not just two headline capacity prices.

A small object library can create a large transfer bill. Plan for the popular release and repeated downloads.

Separate originals, variants, origin requests and delivery before comparing the bill.

Budget for the recovery event, object churn and retained versions—not only a quiet month of storage.

A European region is one useful fact. It does not answer every placement, resilience or processing question.

Understand why small objects can be operation-heavy and large downloads can be bandwidth-heavy.

Validate the client behavior you need instead of treating API compatibility as a universal yes/no promise.