Cloudflare R2 Storage now generally available for developers

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 22 (Bernama) -- Cloudflare Inc, the security, performance, and reliability company helping to build a better Internet, has announced that Cloudflare R2 Storage, the distributed object storage that eliminates egress costs, is now generally available.

Cloudflare R2 Storage offers a better way for developers to store and access everything they need. Whether it's storage for large media files, logs, or delivery of web assets, Cloudflare R2 offers flexibility with zero egress fees.

According to a statement, R2 gives developers both an S3-compatible API, making for seamless migration and a powerful integration with Cloudflare Workers, Cloudflare’s highly scalable serverless computing platform.

“We have been blown away by the initial interest in R2 Storage, and we encourage any developer that wants a better type of storage to sign up and switch to R2 today,” said Cloudflare co-founder and chief executive officer, Matthew Prince.

In order to build websites and applications, developers need a place to store large amounts of unstructured data, photos, videos, and graphics that is quickly and easily accessible.

However, many cloud providers today charge increasingly egregious bandwidth pricing for developers to access their data, resulting in unnecessarily expensive cloud storage, vendor lock-in, and an inability for developers to easily use the data they have stored.

Cloudflare R2 Storage frees developers from this vendor lock-in with automatic migration of data from S3-compatible services to Cloudflare’s highly performant, object store—minus the egress fees.

Since launching the R2 Storage service as an open beta eight weeks ago, more than 11,000 developers have an active account with R2 Storage.

More details at www.cloudflare.com.

-- BERNAMA