This is a great comparison and a great step towards pressure to improve cloud service pricing.
The magic that moves the region sounds like a dealbreaker for any use cases that aren't public, internet-facing. I use $CLOUD_PROVIDER because I can be in the same regions as customers and know the latency will (for the most part) remain consistent. Has anyone measured latencies from R2 -> AWS/GCP/Azure regions similar to this[0]?
Also does anyone know if the R2 supports the CAS operations that so many people are hyped about right now?
This really is a good article. My only issue is that it pretends that the only competition is between Cloudflare and AWS. There are several other low rent storage providers that offer an S3 compatible API. It's also worth looking at Backblaze and Wasabi, for instance. But I don't want to take anything away from this article.