let me nuance that a bit. 99% of our workload is write heavy and is still on S3. We run monitoring checks that snap a screenshot and record a video. We write that to S3. Most folks will never view any of that as most checks pass and these artefacts only become interesting when things fail.
Enter a new product feature we launched (Visual Regression Testing) which requires us to fetch an image from storage on every "run" we do. These could be every 10sec. This is where R2 shines. No egress cost for us. It's been rock solid and saved us about 60x compared to AWS. Still, we run most of our infra on AWS.
Enter a new product feature we launched (Visual Regression Testing) which requires us to fetch an image from storage on every "run" we do. These could be every 10sec. This is where R2 shines. No egress cost for us. It's been rock solid and saved us about 60x compared to AWS. Still, we run most of our infra on AWS.