Developer Week Performance Update: Spotlight on R2

In a head-to-head comparison against Amazon S3, Cloudflare's R2 storage service emerged as the faster solution in both North America and Europe/Asia regions. The study tested 400 Catchpoint backbone nodes embedded in last mile ISPs around the world to retrieve a 1 MB file from both services in specific locations: Ashburn, Tokyo, and Frankfurt. Cloudflare's R2 service was found to be approximately two times faster than Amazon S3 for users accessing content hosted in the same region as them. Additionally, R2 outperformed S3 when users accessed data stored outside of their local regions. This performance advantage extends to workloads that combine storage with compute services like Cloudflare Workers. The combination of R2 and Workers provides developers with a simpler and faster end-to-end application experience compared to alternatives offered by AWS or Fastly.