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Cloudflare Workers in 2025: from edge to enterprise

Cloudflare Workers turned eight in 2025 without slowing down: it now ships D1 for databases, R2 for egress-free storage, Durable Objects for distributed state, and Workers AI for running models without managing GPUs. It remains the fastest option for edge logic; for large in-memory processes or strict global consistency, other platforms fit better.

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Cloudflare Workers in 2024: KV, D1, and the New Edge Stack

Cloudflare Workers is no longer an isolated edge function. In 2024, together with KV, D1, R2, and Durable Objects, it forms a complete platform that matches AWS on latency and drops egress fees, though it still falls short on long-running compute and the mature managed databases AWS offers.