Cloudflare Images

They really are pressing to become the backbone to easy app development. I easily see it and am especially looking forward to the more and more originless options.

I am interested in seeing pricing but another (no offense Cloudflare folks) annoying in-the-dark beta.

To spat off a few ways someone could do similar image stuff, all roughly with them pretty effectively, varying trade-offs of course (origin load, no origin, cost, etc...):

- Current image resize plan ($)

- Custom Origin Resizer + normal CF cache everything

- Custom Origin Resizer + tiered CF cache everything

- Custom Origin Resizer and Mirage/Polish whatever on their +plans

- Custom Origin Resizer + cache everything + ignore query strings via custom cache keys (Enterprise)

- Custom Origin Resizer + cache everything + ignore query strings via worker script to make custom cache keys

- Store the image in an array buffer in their KV store

- Worker + a WASM binding that resizes the image on the fly (they made this as a WebAssembly proof of concept)

- Now this new custom thing.

Very cool.. Love the flexibility and range.

I look forward to seeing what the pricing is, it's disappointing they didn't announce it here. I feel like they've tried to obscure the pricing for Image Resizing, and only made it available to Business customers.

Would love to see Cloudflare be more upfront with the pricing around their image products, and make them available to Free/Pro customers as well.

Once everyone has handed over their DNS and their hosting, do we really believe that Cloudflare isn't going to make exiting them really, really hard?

This is yet another example of how they want to re-centralize the Internet, with them in control of as much of it as possible.