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Who is Cloudflare R2 best for?
Quick fit guide: Who is Cloudflare R2 best for, who should avoid it, and what typically forces a switch.
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Best use cases for Cloudflare R2
- Egress-heavy workloads serving public content (media, downloads, assets)
- Teams already using Cloudflare and wanting tighter ecosystem adjacency
- Buyers optimizing for pricing mechanics over hyperscaler breadth
- Products that need S3-style object storage without hyperscaler governance overhead
Who should avoid Cloudflare R2?
- You require deep enterprise governance features tied to a hyperscaler ecosystem
- Your workload depends on hyperscaler-native integrations across many services
- You need guaranteed parity with every S3 feature and edge-case behavior
Upgrade triggers for Cloudflare R2
- Need broader enterprise governance and compliance integrations
- Need deeper data platform adjacency (analytics, ML pipelines) in a hyperscaler
- Need multi-cloud standardized governance patterns across many teams
Sources & verification
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