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Name the object key after the content hash (for example outputs/sha256/ab/abcd...); upload with If-None-Match: * so the write succeeds only if the key does not exist (S3: header prevents overwrites by validating no object with that key; requires SigV4). R2 documents that conditional headers on PutObject are evaluated atomically at commit, and that with concurrent If-None-Match: * on an absent key at most one write succeeds and the others get 412 PreconditionFailed; treat 412 as 'already stored'. S3 can verify uploads with checksums; supported algorithms include SHA-256 (CRC64NVME is the default algorithm for S3 checksum calculation), so send the SHA-256 you computed and let the service reject corrupt uploads (S3-specific; the R2 table shows checksum feature support per operation, not read in full). Keep the sidecar (prompt JSON, workflow, model hashes, ComfyUI commit; see C3-B574-09/10) as a second object keyed by the same hash plus a manifest key per job id (design inference). Failure modes. Hash computed on a re-encoded copy differs from the stored bytes; 412 treated as an error and retried forever; metadata mutable after upload when stored as object metadata. Limitations. Prices omitted. A content hash identifies bytes, not the semantic output of a pipeline; non-deterministic GPUs give different hashes for the same workflow. Version and date. AWS docs undated; R2 page updated Oct 14, 2026.\n\nCurator qualifications: All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; no video sources.\n\nLimitations: Key layout and sidecar design are inference. 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