Great to finally see this here! Cloudflare is the 4th major cloud platform that (almost) nobody is seeing coming, and I believe that they will even surpass Google Cloud Platform's sooner than expected.
The only problem that remains is their support...
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The most consistently amazing thing about Cloudflare is the clarity of their product positioning.
You have this common problem, we built a thing to fix it.
No 'change your problem into this other problem' gymnastics. Just 'pay us once you exceed the free tier, and it's no longer a problem'.
And furthermore, they seem to have clarity of platform vision, in that each piece does something very specific to help them compete efficiently against AWS/Azure/GCP (who have much larger resources) AND has synergies with their existing platform. E.g. edge compute, free/cheaper network traffic from compute/storage
Critically, Cloudflare seems like the only competitor to the majors that has their eyes on competing on price by capturing enough of the market of {some thing} that they can still make profits at extremely low price points.
Also, just glanced at their financials again, and they look exactly like you'd want to run a large company if your eye was on order of magnitude growth. They just pivoted to positive FCF in 2023, biggest expense is sales and marketing (over half their gross profit), and have exponential revenue growth.
Support and also all-around enterprise readiness. Even on the enterprise tier, their permissions management is a pale shadow of what IAM grants you on AWS or GCP, to the point where you will put your compliance as risk. No documentation on setting up SAML/SSO for their management console. It's very, very clear that their internal growth engines are set to ludicrous growth rates (to try and justify their outrageous stock price) and the organization is coming apart at the seams. None of which takes away from the fact that the core engineering is top-tier and the core tech product is best-in-class.
We'll see if NET survives public investor expectations.
Yeah, for example, you can grant Edit permissions on Cloudflare Workers overall within an account, but you cannot grant permissions on a single Cloudflare Workers deployment. Any developer who has permissions in, say, a development Cloudflare Workers deployment will thus have full permissions to the production Cloudflare Workers deployment, or permissions to deployments owned by other teams.
Why is this buried deep in the docs for Zero Trust and not part of user management? Why are there no references to it from user management, either in the docs or in the add/remove users screen?
On pricing page for R2 it says "Storage: 10 GB / month" is free ... what does it mean per month?
Info that there are "zero egress fees" is only available on R2 product page and not pricing page.
IMO R2 pricing page look like it only displays quick info and that there might be fine print somewhere, but there is no link to more details. It could be that's all there is to it, but somehow design feels off to me. Especially because of the "zero egress fees" info being displayed only on the product page.
Workers product page shows "Maximum number of scripts": 30 free, 100 paid. But on workers pricing page it shows "Up to 100 Worker scripts" for free and "Up to 500 Worker scripts" for paid.
Links to different sections (Pricing, Products...) don't have an option to open in new tab. IMO the whole website is weirdly organized. But maybe it's just me.
Your are billed every month for your total storage. Every month you don't need to pay for the first 10 GB.
I'm not really sure if eggres has to be mentioned if it's widely known that Cloudflare doesn't bill for eggres. But I get your point.
Concerning Cloudflare workers:
Workers has a free tier and a paid tier at 5€/month.
The free tier has a limit of 100 workers and the paid tier has a limit of 500 workers.
Perhaps just scroll down a bit more on the pricing page of Cloudflare workers. I'm assuming you are checking it on Mobile and missed that.
About but being able to open pricing in a new tab. I noticed the same.
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They also have a minor UX issue that if you want to go to the Web analytics page, the menu goes to the first child and hides. So you'll have to click it open again and click on Web analytics ( again, just an issue on Mobile)
The only problem that remains is their support...
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