ditching S3 for Cloudflare R2
Saying goodbye to AWS egress fees. I am migrating IBBE to Cloudflare R2 and building a custom local server network to handle cold storage on our own terms.
Moving IBBE away from the AWS ecosystem feels like a massive weight off my shoulders. AWS S3 is reliable, but those egress fees are a silent killer for an LMS where students constantly pull data. By switching to Cloudflare R2, I am effectively bringing our bandwidth costs down to zero while keeping the storage logic simple. The most exciting part is the hybrid "Glacier" setup I am planning. I will be using our own local server network to handle the heavy lifting of cold storage, pushing files to R2 only when they need to be served. It is a bit more complex to wire up, but building a custom pipeline that bypasses the "cloud tax" is exactly the kind of architecture that makes this project fun.
refer to comprehensive problem statement, stay tuned in this build log statement as i will be posting videos of system design tackling the problems