R2 Questions

[viniciusccarvalho]

Hi folks, I’m just starting with cloud fare, so please bear with me if some questions are plain dumb.

I’m building (a non profit, personal) front end to allow users to search archived magazines, and all the magazine scans will be stored inside a S3 compatible server

I’m building a community website, and the app is hosted on google cloud, and I have a digital ocean spaces for all the static images (~80gb).

I initially thought of using DO spaces and front it with cloudfare but since looking into R2 it seemed to me to be a better option.

I do have a few questions though:

1. Is there any benefits in having an R2 public be fronted by CloudFare’s CDN? Does that even make sense? What is usually the good advice here?
2. Does R2 support s3cmd sync command? It would mean a ton if it does so I could sync my local files (225k files and 80gb)

Thank you very much

[Cyb3r-Jak3]

@viniciusccarvalho

Is there any benefits in having an R2 public be fronted by Cloudflare’s CDN? Does that even make sense? What is usually the good advice here?

It make sense (and is recommended) to use Cloudflare CDN in front of R2 as it reduces the amount of reads from R2 and allows you to use WAF and other Cloudflare features in front of your bucket.

@viniciusccarvalho

Does R2 support s3cmd sync command? It would mean a ton if it does so I could sync my local files (225k files and 80gb)

It looks like it does apart from this issue Cloudflare R2: WARNING: MD5 Sums don't match! · Issue #1273 · s3tools/s3cmd · GitHub