In Q3 2024, our team of 6 backend engineers at a mid-sized media SaaS cut monthly cloud egress spend from $42,000 to $16,800 — a 60% reduction — by replacing direct AWS S3 public access with a Cloudflare R2 bucket fronted by the AWS S3 Gateway, with zero impact to p99 download latency and no client-side code changes. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now Ask.com has closed (182 points) Ti-84 Evo (405 points) Job Postings for Software Engineers Are Rapidly Rising (111 points) Why does it take so long to release black fan versions? (25 points) Artemis II Photo Timeline (150 points) Key Insights 60% reduction in monthly egress spend ($42k → $16.8k) with zero client-side changes Cloudflare R2 (v2024.9) and AWS S3 Gateway (v2.14.0) with S3-compatible API parity $25.2k monthly savings offset $1.2k/month R2 + Gateway operational overhead, net $24k/month gain AWS will deprecate S3 public egress discounts by 2026, making R2+Gateway mandatory for cost-sensitive workloads Benchmarking Egress Performance: S3 vs R2 + S3…