Barnes TechI’ve been a big fan of what Cloudflare is doing for a long time. They seem to have a great mission, and approach problem solving in a unique way that has always resonated with me. I am working on writing an in depth blog post about the Zero Trust tools that they offer (Collectively called Cloudflare One), but Cloudflare has been building out a lot of other tools as well.
I have not seen many people comparing Cloudflare to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, however with several tools they have recently released, I think they will be a bigger competitor than people give them credit for.
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Cloudflare R2 enters open beta - Cloudflare S3 like storage launching in beta soon. Compatible with S3 API’s, which makes it immediately accessible to tons of applications out there. S3 is great, but super expensive for what it is, so the more competition in this place the better.
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D1 - Cloud hosted SQL Database A small but important first step in to a lightweight cloud hosted database. This is another area where the more competition the better.
Really looking forward to see what else Cloudflare launches in these spaces.
Update - May 12, 2022
Today Cloudflare announced another key building block in this space -