railway does not support shared volumes yet, the alternative would be to deploy minio into the project and use an S3 client in the various services that need access to the data

n/a

if the data is stored in R2/S3, wouldn't it impose egress cost to the user? since the data needs to be downloaded first externally

I had mentioned MinIO, I'm not sure how your users would end up paying egress? you would pay the egress

though I feel like I'm missing a whole lot of context here, please fill me in

maybe I misunderstood something, but from what I thought (I could be wrong about this), if I use S3 client, wouldn't it mean that my services would have to fetch the data from that S3 instance and then the data would then be relayed to the users? This will double the egress cost as my services has to access the data on S3 first before relaying it to the users?

CMIIW

there are no egress fees for service to service communication via the private network

I see, thank you I will look it up

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