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Cloudflare doesn't offer the same product suite as the other companies you mention, though. Cloudflare is primarily DDoS prevention while the others are primari
by HappMacDonald 2y ago
Cloudflare doesn't offer the same product suite as the other companies you mention, though. Cloudflare is primarily DDoS prevention while the others are primarily cloud hosting.
And it is the DDoS prevention measures at issue here.
- gjsman-1000 2y agoFive years ago, you would’ve been right, but Cloudflare is very different now. Nowadays, Cloudflare has image compression and CDN services, video storage and delivery services, serverless compute with Workers, domain registration, (soon) container support with optional GPUs, durable objects (basically serverless storage), serverless SQL databases (D1), even an AWS S3 competitor with B2. They even have bespoke services like CloudFlare Tunnels - what’s AWS got that’s anything like it? Cloudflare is getting close to full-on AWS. At least, the parts most customers use. If they just added boring old VPSs, people would realize very quickly how full featured they are. As for DDoS mitigation - you’ve still got AWS Shield, Akamai, Azure, Radware, F5, even Oracle (Dyn) competing in that market. Unless you could show Cloudflare did illegal tying as a monopolist specifically to sell DDoS prevention, there’s no case.