Where are Cloudflare Images stored?

I use R2 for image storage and come across cloudflare images transformation solution. I’m thinking of using it instead of Vercel’s image transformation but I’m unsure how it works. If I store my images in R2 and run the loader/transformer against cloudflare, where will the the transformed sizes/images be stored? Also, I don’t get the purpose of cloudflare images storage. How is it different from using R2 storage and the images service for transformation only?
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Unsmart
Unsmart2w ago
Afaik they dont do any permanent storage for transformed images its on demand but potentially cached for a few hours depending on demand for the specific transformed image. And there is not really much of a difference between using R2 to store the images yourself or using the Images service to store them. Mostly just a managed api dedicated to image storage vs a generic object storage and you make the apis yourself.

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