What’s happening right now is a story we’ve seen plenty of times before. Overhead cost of convenience mixed with vendor lock-in, all while boasting about open source.
I’d love to create tools that were convenient and had fair pricing. The challenge is that you’re trying to grow into a market with worse acquisition economics. Tough to win if winning is the goal. If anyone has a solution reach out. XD
Our egress bill from Cloudfront last month, inc. the 1TB/per region free tier, was nearly $2,000. That's egress traffic ALONE (~20TB of it).
Needlessly to say, we're wrapping up testing on migrating our production (public) buckets to Cloudflare (R2) taking our cost from those $2,000 (and going up every month), to (drum roll)... $0,000/mo.
Have I mentioned AWS egress charges are borderline "extortionary"? :X
I am currently developing an option that offers identical quality and features but at a significantly lower cost. Unfortunately, you will have to wait for approximately a year until I complete the development process. However, I believe that the wait will be worth it, and you will be pleased with the outcome.
