New serverless offering extends capacity limits
with a compelling pricing model for customers
Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the security, performance, and
reliability company helping to build a better Internet, today
announced the release of Cloudflare Workers® Unbound, offering a
serverless platform for developers with unparalleled flexibility,
performance, security, ease of use, and pricing. Cloudflare Workers
Unbound allows developers to run complicated computing workloads
across the Cloudflare network and pay only for what they use. In
addition to being more flexible, Cloudflare Workers Unbound can
save users up to 75 percent for the same workloads running on
legacy, centralized serverless platforms such as AWS Lambda.
“Cloudflare Workers Unbound is the most compelling serverless
platform available,” said Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of
Cloudflare. “I challenged our team to build a platform that didn't
just compete with niche edge computing solutions, but would provide
developers the fastest, most secure, most flexible, and most
cost-effective general-purpose serverless offering — period. I'm
incredibly proud of Cloudflare Workers Unbound and can't wait to
see what developers will build with it.”
The Cloudflare Workers edge computing platform has been
available to developers since September 2017. Last quarter, more
than 20,000 developers created new applications running on
Cloudflare Workers. Today, more than 10 percent of traffic through
Cloudflare's global network is powered by Cloudflare Workers.
Cloudflare Workers Unbound opens the platform to even more use
cases, allowing developers to access the power of edge computing
but with better flexibility and cost than even legacy, centralized
serverless platforms.
Cloudflare Workers Unbound provides a broad set of benefits to
developers:
- Limitless: Developers can run heavy workloads without
having to worry about overly restrictive CPU constraints and pay
only for what they use.
- Cost-Effective: For the same workload, Cloudflare
Workers Unbound can be 75 percent less expensive than AWS Lambda,
24 percent less expensive than Microsoft Azure Functions, and 52
percent less expensive than Google Cloud Functions.
- No Hidden Fees: Developers don't pay for hidden extras
like API gateway or DNS request fees.
- No Cold Starts: Cloudflare Workers Unbound is the first
serverless platform to offer out of the box support for 0
nanosecond cold start times, compared with cold starts on other
platforms that can take seconds and add unpredictable
variability.
- Unthrottled CPU: Other serverless platforms throttle
CPU, resulting in workloads that take longer. The efficiency of the
Cloudflare Workers isolates architecture lets Cloudflare run CPUs
unthrottled so users can get more done per second of compute
time.
- Fast Globally: Workloads run across the Cloudflare
network, spanning more than 200 cities in more than 100 countries,
reducing average network latency for users everywhere in the
world.
- Instant Updates: Developers can update their code and
have it live globally in 15 seconds, compared with the minutes it
can take to update on other serverless platforms.
- Broad Language Support: Developers can write code in the
languages they know and love, including JavaScript, C, C++, Python,
Go, Rust, Scala, Kotlin, and even COBOL.
- Automatic Scaling: Cloudflare Workers Unbound
automatically scale to meet demand without developers needing to
worry about spinning up new instances.
- Robust Debugging Tools: Developers can achieve more
productivity with new tools to simplify debugging and diagnosing
problems.
- Secure By Design: The platform is built to withstand the
latest security threats, including sophisticated timing attacks,
and was reviewed by the team that discovered the Spectre class of
vulnerabilities.
Cloudflare will continue to offer the original Cloudflare
Workers model, now known as Cloudflare Workers Bundled, with its
radically simple pricing for basic workloads. Cloudflare Workers
Unbound now allows the hundreds of thousands of developers using
the Cloudflare Workers platform to create even more complex
applications without having to worry about overly restrictive
limits.
“Serverless promises both a radical new economic model for
compute, and a radically simplified programming model, with the
developer focusing on orchestration and composition of rich back
end services. Autoscaling, performance, observability, built-in
security and support for a range of modern programming languages
are all provided by the infrastructure,” said James Governor,
RedMonk co-founder and analyst. “Cloudflare Workers Unbound is
designed to provide best in class performance, taking advantage of
a global edge network, competing directly with existing cloud
serverless platforms on a cost for cost basis.”
“Cloudflare Workers has quickly proven itself to be a key part
of providing a best-in-class user experience,” said Mark Smith,
Director of Infrastructure at Discord. “We use Workers extensively
for core application delivery, download authentication, spam and
abuse mitigation, and more. Our engineers now reach for Workers
first to solve many kinds of challenges.”
“Optimizely uses Workers to deliver a personalized, targeted
response for every request,” said Michael Hood, Senior Staff
Performance Engineer at Optimizely. “Cloudflare's global network,
and the consistent low latency of their edge compute platform,
leveled the playing field and let us ship products previously out
of reach.”
“We have been using Cloudflare Workers and Workers KV at the
edge of our stack for about a year now,” said Frank Sharpe, Product
Developer at ProPublica. “We appreciate the degree of control these
tools have given us. Performant and malleable, Workers has improved
our platform stability while giving us enormous flexibility.”
Workers Unbound is currently a private beta. Developers can sign
up for details here.
To learn more about Cloudflare and Cloudflare Workers Unbound,
please check out the resources below:
- Workers Unbound Blog
- Serverless Week Blog
- Cloudflare Workers Landing Page
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About Cloudflare
Cloudflare, Inc. (www.cloudflare.com / @cloudflare) is on a
mission to help build a better Internet. Cloudflare’s platform
protects and accelerates any Internet application online without
adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code.
Internet properties powered by Cloudflare have all web traffic
routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter
with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement
in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare
was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures 2018 list
and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast
Company in 2019. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, Cloudflare has
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