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Because they don't offer the most basic service... virtual machines.

Not everyone is making serverless JS web applications!

Most of the time, people need a Linux server they can SSH into.

Cloudflare don't offer this, so I continue to use AWS.

It's definitely not just for JS web apps anymore—you can run Rust, Python, and even standard Docker containers now. Plus, things like D1(SQL) and R2(Storage) give you the entire backend stack ready-made. But you're completely right that it doesn't replace a raw VM. Cloudflare's goal is to abstract away the infrastructure so you don't have to manage a Linux server just to host an API or SaaS. But if you actually need OS-level access, background daemons, or to run legacy code, you absolutely still need EC2 or a traditional VPS.

You cannot run containers, you can have edge workers that use a container and spin up/down. They also don't have an OCI registry

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