Cloudflare aims at AWS with promise of $1.25B to startups that use its platform

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26 points·jgrahamc··6 comments

Apart from pricing factor, how does cloudflare really differentiates itself from AWS, Google cloud, Azure..?

Way more user friendly but maybe it's because it doesn't have all the competitor features yet and then the complexity kicked in.

I think Cloudflare actually paid for a large enough UI/UX team and took that seriously instead of the AWS model which is where UI/UX is done by application developers and then they maybe decide to fix the interface years later.

It's a real priority internally. As is accessibility. We want our product to be useable by the widest range of people and via APIs. And we want it to be easy to use.

If you want to use their "Access" or "Zero Trust" product from the main dashboard, I get about 8 redirects, ~12 seconds of delay and it launches a whole another bloated JS app which has different aesthetics, built by a separate team and has no relation to the main dashboard patterns.

They need to streamline their UI. There is much that needs to be done.

It's all products at the edge, as opposed to the other clouds where most of the products are delivered in big data centers. So unlike lambda where you have 20ish regions, you have 100s of POPs for cloudlare workers.

But because of that, I don't see how cloudlare can compete aggressively on price for things that don't need to be extremely close to the end user (IMO most things). Something's gotta give unless they have some incredible secret sauce.

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