2026-01-27
The ProblemCloudflare Data Platform
Traditional Data Infrastructure
Complex Infrastructure
Manage Kafka clusters, Spark jobs, and data warehouses
Egress Fees
Pay to move data between clouds and regions
Vendor Lock-in
Proprietary formats trap your data
Slow Time-to-Value
Setting up data pipelines requires stitching multiple complex services together
Cloudflare Data Platform
Fully Serverless
No infrastructure to manage — just send data and query
Zero Egress Fees
Query from anywhere without transfer costs
Open Standards
Apache Iceberg lets you bring any query engine you want
Minutes to Start
Single command to create a pipeline
"Traditional data infrastructure is expensive and hard to operate, requiring fixed cloud infrastructure and in-house expertise. We built the Cloudflare Data Platform to be easy enough for anyone to use with transparent and true usage-based pricing."