Cloudflare is so generous and provides almost everything— Workers, D1, CDN, KV, Durable Objects, Workers AI, S3 Compatible Storage (R2) & More!
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wasimsk•1h ago
I can't figure it out why we are obsessed with AWS and GCP!
AnonyMD•1h ago
And don't forget Tunnel!
It's a magical invention that lets us host websites while keeping our server firewalls closed!
wasimsk•41m ago
100%. Tunnels are basically a cheat code. Being able to expose services securely to the internet without opening a single inbound port on the firewall feels like magic.
skele•1h ago
Does Cloudflare have equivalent of GCP's Kubernetes Engine?
grugdev42•41m ago
Because they don't offer the most basic service... virtual machines.
Not everyone is making serverless JS web applications!
Most of the time, people need a Linux server they can SSH into.
Cloudflare don't offer this, so I continue to use AWS.
wasimsk•28m ago
It's definitely not just for JS web apps anymore—you can run Rust, Python, and even standard Docker containers now. Plus, things like D1(SQL) and R2(Storage) give you the entire backend stack ready-made.
But you're completely right that it doesn't replace a raw VM. Cloudflare's goal is to abstract away the infrastructure so you don't have to manage a Linux server just to host an API or SaaS. But if you actually need OS-level access, background daemons, or to run legacy code, you absolutely still need EC2 or a traditional VPS.
wasimsk•1h ago