11 engineers on Hacker News describe using Cloudflare R2 first-hand: 5 endorse it, 3 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“we got reports from some european government institutions that our assets weren't loading... so we rolled back”
regret · production · kawsper · 2026-04-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“R2 has free egress, and Vercel + Next is cheap if cached correctly.”
endorse · production · lukeigel · 2025-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched back to AWS after trying to switch storage to Cloudflare R2. Even with this outage, I still consider AWS more reliable than Cloudflare.”
regret · production · dabinat · 2025-10-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Cloudflare R2 storage is pretty cheap.”
endorse · production · mythz · 2025-10-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This is where R2 shines. No egress cost for us. It's been rock solid and saved us about 60x compared to AWS.”
endorse · production · tnolet · 2024-06-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“why we've moved to Cloudflare R2 for their zero egress fees. Being able to reuse the s3 command-line and existing S3 libraries has made the migration painless”
endorse · production · mythz · 2024-05-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I evaluated using this in prod, but came to the conclusion that R2 was a bit shaky as a database.”
regret · production · neftaly · 2024-01-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Cloudflare R2 is an attractive solution. R2 doesn't have egress fee and the free tier includes 10 million read requests/month”
endorse · production · wenbin · 2022-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Everything is built using Cloudflare. We use Workers, D1, R2, Browser Rendering, AI Gateway, etc.”
neutral · production · slobodan_ · 2026-08-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we've built something similar at a smaller scale inside R2, though right now it's only for .md files.”
neutral · production · chandureddyvari · 2026-07-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It seems regular reverse proxying and R2 still works, as we use those and seem to be working fine still.”
neutral · production · jonathanlydall · 2025-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?