If you’re choosing object storage for a VPS-backed app, cloudflare r2 vs s3 is the comparison that keeps coming up—mostly because bandwidth costs can quietly become your biggest bill after compute. Both store blobs reliably, but they behave very differently once you factor in egress, latency, and the way you’ll actually deploy on VPS platforms. Pricing reality: egress is the fight Amazon S3 is the default choice because it’s everywhere and “just works.” The catch is that S3 pricing isn’t just about storage and requests. For many VPS-hosted workloads (image-heavy sites, downloads, backups served to users), data transfer out can dwarf everything else. Cloudflare R2’s main pitch is simple: no egress fees when serving data out of R2 (especially compelling when paired with Cloudflare’s network). In practice, that changes architecture decisions: With S3, you often add a CDN to reduce origin egress and improve performance. With R2, you’re less punished for being popular, so your cost curve is easier to predict.…