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Not sure why this is a surprise to people, AWS started with similar humble origins. The goal of Cloudflare has been to become the fourth public cloud for a long time now, I think in several years they will be the most powerful platform to build on.

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Not really a surprise, and the platform will very likely grow further, though I wouldn't compare CF to AWS in anything except the rise in popularity. I'd say they're "reinventing" cloud in a way. From my point of view, AWS is (mostly) IaaS, likes of Heroku - PaaS, whereas CF Workers and their "ecosystem" is primarly serverless, though - with these recent additions - they're expanding what this category of tools can do. It's a unique platform for sure.

Yes it will be better than AWS.

I used to work at Render, and I said often "Cloudflare is the iceberg - only ten percent of it is above the water and it's going to tear a big chunk out of the [PaaS] boat".

Over time it seems more and more confirmable as a hypothesis.

True. I was actually looking at Render a while back to host my app. The Render Disks were the one feature I was most interested in, as no other PaaS provider I was aware of provided persistent disk storage. The prices were a bit too much for a side-project though, and with no managed MongoDB, I ultimately made the app not require the disk storage and moved to Railway.

The question is how the smart people at AWS who realized this too, will prevent them from rising to the top.

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