On: Cloudflare Sippy: Incrementally Migrate Data from AWS S3 to Reduce Egress Fees

[ericpauley]

This (although as others said it’s the list cost, not the delete). If you want to nuke a bucket don’t waste your time with the API and just age the files out. I’ve done this with buckets with tens of millions of files and five minute’s work.

[albert_e → ericpauley]

Both list objects and delete object are API actions that incur the standard cost for "requests" ... isn't it?

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PUT, COPY, POST, LIST requests (per 1,000 requests) = $0.005

GET, SELECT, and all other requests (per 1,000 requests) = $0.0004

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"You pay for requests made against your S3 buckets and objects. S3 request costs are based on the request type, and are charged on the quantity of requests as listed in the table below" https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/#:~:text=You%20pay%20for%2...

[ericpauley → albert_e]

From the same paragraph:

“DELETE and CANCEL requests are free.”