Great post. Minor rant: However while Cloudflare does not charge for edge-egress, their pricing story is terrible, awful and dare I say terrible again.
It looks like they took their internal evolving developer docs and turned it into pricing for customers.
There is a tree of docs and pricing you have to get to the punchline which is that Cloudflare for the most part is several orders of magnitude cheaper than AWS or any other cloud provider. And each 'team' seems to have their own little pricing page with arcane details - exactly the definition of 'ship your org chart as products'. Just check out Workers pricing for instance. The product is great but the pricing story is silly.
But it's almost like they want to drive customers directly to AWS with Amazon's simple pricing calculator and tools.
If you are serving static assets then essentially it's pretty cheap. You can use KV / Workers and then use the caching to minimize cost which measures requests not bandwidth.
It looks like they took their internal evolving developer docs and turned it into pricing for customers.
There is a tree of docs and pricing you have to get to the punchline which is that Cloudflare for the most part is several orders of magnitude cheaper than AWS or any other cloud provider. And each 'team' seems to have their own little pricing page with arcane details - exactly the definition of 'ship your org chart as products'. Just check out Workers pricing for instance. The product is great but the pricing story is silly.
But it's almost like they want to drive customers directly to AWS with Amazon's simple pricing calculator and tools.