S3 or google cloud storage ?

Hey, i am creating an ecommerce using nextjs, and i wanted to ask which one of the two services, s3 and google cloud storage should i use to store images of the website?
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JulieCezar
JulieCezar11mo ago
I would actually recommend DigitalOcean Spaces or Theo's UploadThing If you are planning to scale Google and AWS will take a lot of money on bandwidth
cogdancer
cogdancer11mo ago
Cloudflare R2 might be worth looking into. There's a generous free tier, and after that the pricing is much cheaper than S3 for most use cases. We're small scale right now and only use it for images & PDFs, but it's worked well so far. https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/pricing/
Pricing · Cloudflare R2 docs
R2 charges based on the total volume of data stored, along with two classes of operations on that data:
iukea
iukea11mo ago
Google cloud sucks S3 if you can get it to work or R2
iukea
iukea11mo ago
More info on S3 R2 is compatible with the AWS SDK S3