R2 adds event notifications, support for migrations from Google Cloud Storage, and an infrequent access storage tier

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We’re excited to announce three new features for Cloudflare R2, our zero egress fee object storage platform:

• Event Notifications: Automatically trigger Workers and take action when data in your R2 bucket changes.
• Super Slurper for Google Cloud Storage: Easily migrate data from Google Cloud Storage to Cloudflare R2.
• Infrequent Access Private Beta: Pay less to store data that isn’t frequently accessed. Now in private beta (sign up now).

Event Notifications Open Beta

The lifecycle of data often doesn’t stop immediately after upload to an R2 bucket – event data may need to be transformed and loaded into a data warehouse, media files may need to go through a post-processing step, etc. We’re releasing event notifications for R2 in open beta to enable building applications and workflows driven by your changing data.

Event notifications work by sending messages to your queue each time there is a change to your data. These messages are then received by a consumer Worker where you can then define any subsequent action that needs to be taken.

To get started enabling event Continue reading