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I am here but I retired from being CTO of Cloudflare in March 2025 [1] and the current CTO is Dane Knecht (dknecht here). What advantage does decoupling Cloudflare Containers from Cloudflare Workers have?

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/three-chapters-at-cloudflare-pro...



Speaking from personal experience, I already know exactly what I’m getting with containers. Same with Postgres.


No per-request billing, portable devops - easier multicloud, known semantics (env variables, entrypoint, websocket lifecycle).


Not sure if it's the only blocker, but I wanted to use containers with UDP/SRT.


quick piece of feedback, the workers architecture is a little bit annoying when converting from Lambda but hooking up to cloudflare MCP solves 90% of the issues


there's absolutely nothing positive we want to encourage copying from AWS's architectural approach to anything.


chuckles


I'm pretty sure I heard your groan from all the way over here in Nashville. ;)




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