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neyayesterday at 7:14 PM1 replyview on HN

Yes you're right. The CPU you get is pretty beefy, and they do a really poor job of marketing it.

I am not sure the average budget constrained developer is the right audience for this product. Might be a steal for enterprises though if they can run intense tasks at the edge for just $600-700 bucks.


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Havocyesterday at 7:50 PM

>I am not sure the average budget constrained developer is the right audience for this product.

Actually think that's their #1 audience.

They absolute take an L on raw pricing, but their "don't send me surprise 100k bills" story is very strong. Their billing is prepay and when I was looking at their WAF even the free tier thing it looked solid on rate limit features

> intense tasks at the edge for just $600-700 bucks.

I'd venture that it would be the wrong tool for that anyway. I'd probably do something like static page on their CDN, dynamic requests to a magic container/function and that passes it on to something VM-ish that isn't publicly exposed. To me 100s of dollar spend in exposed edge compute just doesn't make sense

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