R2

R2 bandwidth by Cloudflare location

You can now view R2 bandwidth by the Cloudflare location that served each request in the Cloudflare UI. This helps you see which locations consume the most bandwidth with options to select a specific bucket and download (read) vs upload (write) bandwidth.

R2 bandwidth usage metrics

New R2 product-level Metrics page in the Cloudflare dashboard shows bandwidth usage. You can view usage across all buckets or per bucket.

R2 Data Catalog adds table maintenance visibility and manual queueing

R2 Data Catalog now provides table-level maintenance visibility and manual compaction queueing in the Cloudflare dashboard.

R2 Data Access Logs

are now generally available. Turn on logging for a bucket to record object read, write, list, multipart upload, and delete operations with response status codes below 400.

New `us` jurisdiction for R2

R2 now supports a us jurisdiction, which guarantees that bucket data is stored and processed within the United States. Use this jurisdiction when you need explicit US data residency guarantees.

Billing is now enabled for R2 Data Catalog

on non-enterprise accounts. R2 Data Catalog usage beyond the included free tier will appear on your next invoice.

Sippy now supports Azure Blob Storage and S3-compatible storage providers

Sippy can now incrementally migrate data from Azure Blob Storage and any S3-compatible object storage provider to Cloudflare R2, in addition to Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage.

R2 Data Catalog now supports read-only API tokens

R2 Data Catalog now accepts read-only API tokens, so query engines and clients that only read data no longer need a read-write token. Previously, every catalog operation required an Admin Read & Write token, which granted read-only clients more access than they needed.

R2 Data Catalog warns before you delete data manually

R2 Data Catalog is a managed Apache Iceberg catalog built directly into your R2 bucket. Iceberg tracks your data through a tree of metadata files, so every insert, update, and delete must go through a catalog transaction.

Billable usage and budget alerts now in product sidebars

Pay-as-you-go customers can now view billable usage and create budget alerts directly from the product overview pages for Workers & Pages, D1, R2, Workers KV, Queues, Vectorize, Durable Objects, and Containers.

R2 Data Catalog pricing announced

R2 Data Catalog is a managed Apache Iceberg data catalog built directly into R2 buckets, queryable by any Iceberg-compatible engine such as Spark, Snowflake, and DuckDB.

R2 Data Catalog gets a dedicated dashboard experience

R2 Data Catalog is a managed Apache Iceberg data catalog built directly into your R2 bucket. It exposes a standard Iceberg REST catalog interface so you can connect query engines like Spark, Snowflake, DuckDB, and R2 SQL to your data in R2.

R2 Data Catalog now exposes metrics via the GraphQL Analytics API

R2 Data Catalog is a managed Apache Iceberg data catalog built directly into your R2 bucket that allows you to connect query engines like R2 SQL, Spark, Snowflake, and DuckDB to your data in R2.

Empty buckets and delete folders from the R2 dashboard

You can now empty an entire R2 bucket or delete folders directly from the dashboard. Emptying a bucket is required before you can delete it. Previously, this required scripting or configuring lifecycle rules. Now, the dashboard can handle it in a single action.

R2 Data Catalog snapshot expiration now removes unreferenced data files

R2 Data Catalog, a managed Apache Iceberg catalog built into R2, now removes unreferenced data files during automatic snapshot expiration. This improvement reduces storage costs and eliminates the need to run manual maintenance jobs to reclaim space from deleted data.

Backup and restore API for Sandbox SDK

Sandboxes now support createBackup() and restoreBackup() methods for creating and restoring point-in-time snapshots of directories.

Improve Global Upload Performance with R2 Local Uploads - Now in Open Beta

Local Uploads is now available in open beta. Enable it on your R2 bucket to improve upload performance when clients upload data from a different region than your bucket.