Why Cloudflare Data Platform?

2026-01-27PresentP
The ProblemCloudflare Data Platform
Cloudflare

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

$0

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."