Choosing Between Cloudflare KV and R2 for Worker Assets
Choose Cloudflare KV for small edge metadata and R2 for large streamed assets. This guide compares consistency, size limits, and shows a Worker that streams an R2 object.
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Choose Cloudflare KV for small edge metadata and R2 for large streamed assets. This guide compares consistency, size limits, and shows a Worker that streams an R2 object.
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