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Developer Platform

Agility and resilience on a modern cloud platform
  • Scalable computing to power the logic of your application.
  • Store session state and/or objects in a distributed environment.
  • All-in-one or individual solutions to build and deliver applications on the edge.
The Cloudflare Difference

Drive better end user experiences

Automatically deploy code to all 300 global locations, with better application performance as it executes within approximately 50ms of 95% of the Internet-connected global population.

Innovate and accelerate

Improve developer productivity and skip time-wasting deployment steps. Developers get a straight line from writing code to production deployment. Eliminate sys-admin concerns today.

Transparent and competitive pricing

Reduce costs with generous free tiers, transparent pricing, and no egress fees.

A scalable, secure ecosystem

Build the next big thing

The developer platform gives you a rich ecosystem of foundational technology built on open source and open standards. You can choose to use all elements of the developer platform or only those you choose. Your architecture choices shouldn't be tied to a single vendor ecosystem. When you have the freedom to choose, you're freed from costly cloud bills, sys-admin challenges, and configuration hassles freeing you to build the next big thing.

Industry Leader

A 'Leader' in The Forrester New Wave for Edge Development Platforms

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For Q4 2021

Forrester Vice President, Principal Analyst, Jeffrey Hammond: Cloudflare “offers strong compute, data services and web development capabilities. Alongside Workers, Workers KV adds edge data storage. Pages, Stream and Images provide higher level platform services for modern web workloads. Cloudflare has an intuitive developer experience, fast, global deployment of updated code, and minimal cold start times.”

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A holistic developer platform

Top use cases

  • Remove setup and configuration headaches - Intelligent, automated deployment and infrastructure management, all done for you.
  • Reduce cloud storage spend - No vendor lock-in and no egrees fees.
  • Increase developer velocity - A developer experience without compromise.
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Compute Solutions

Build applications on the Cloudflare network

Run workloads in response to events and automatically manage the computing resources necessary to execute the code.

Cloudflare workers

Cloudflare Workers

Deploy serverless code instantly across the globe to give it exceptional performance, reliability, and scale.

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Cloudflare Email Routing

Cloudflare Email Routing

Create and manage custom email addresses for your domain.

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Storage

Store your data on the Cloudflare network

Storage solutions to meet your needs from storing session state to objects.

Cloudflare R2 distributed storage

R2 Object Storage

Create multi-cloud architectures with an S3-compatible distributed object storage

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Workers KV

Build highly dynamic APIs and sites which respond as quickly as a cached static file would with our key-value store.

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Durable Objects

Build stateful edge applications, such as chat rooms, shopping carts, or whiteboards, with a strongly consistent data store.

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Website Development

Build blazing fast websites on the Cloudflare network

Give developers access to the best tooling possible to build, debug, and diagnose on the Cloudflare platform.

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Pages (JAMstack)

Create full-stack applications that are instantly deployed to the Cloudflare global network. Deployment requires minimal configuration with many decisions made automatically allowing you to innovate faster.

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Stream

Ingest, encode, record, and play live or on-demand videos.

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Images

Build a highly scalable image pipeline to resize, optimize, store, and deliver images.

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Learn more about Workers

With Workers you can deploy and run code from Cloudflare's global network. Build web functions and applications without the hassle of maintaining infrastructure. Workers is a part of the Cloudflare Developer Platform giving you compute, storage, and services to build and scale your application.

Built-with Workers

Built on Cloudflare: Explore what other companies are building with the Cloudflare Developer Platform.

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Community of Developers

Join the Developers Discord. Share what you're building or ask questions with the Workers community and Cloudflare employees.

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Platform Week 22 - Announcing our Spring Developer Challenge
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After taking this Egghead course you'll be ready to start experimenting with your own Cloudflare Workers projects.

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