Editorial take
Why it stands out
Compare Cloudflare R2 or AWS S3 directly when you outgrow bundled quotas or need advanced WAF and compliance tooling.
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Tool profile
Object storage inside Supabase: S3-compatible buckets, signed URLs, image transforms, and Row Level Security aligned with your Postgres auth.
User-generated content in apps already on Supabase
Supabase Storage layers file buckets on the same project as your database and auth, so access policies can reference user and org rows you already model in SQL. Upload flows pair with client SDKs; transformations help thumbnails without a separate CDN pipeline for simple cases. For massive media pipelines you may still pair CloudFront or another CDN in front.
Quick fit
Editorial take
Compare Cloudflare R2 or AWS S3 directly when you outgrow bundled quotas or need advanced WAF and compliance tooling.
What it does well
Primary use cases
Fit notes
Pricing snapshot
Bundled into Supabase project billing: storage, egress, and transformation usage meter alongside database and auth quotas.
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