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The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch

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454 points positiveblue | 2 comments | 29 Aug 25 16:35 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jjangkke ◴[29 Aug 25 16:48 UTC] No.45066437[source]▶
I would love to get off Cloudflare but there are no real good alternatives
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didibus ◴[29 Aug 25 16:50 UTC] No.45066454[source]▶
AWS is an alternative no?
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nromiun ◴[29 Aug 25 16:55 UTC] No.45066533[source]▶
Bankruptcy as a surprise gift is not an alternative. Even those that use big cloud providers like AWS and GCP use CDNs like Cloudflare to protect themselves. And there is no free CDN like Cloudflare.
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didibus ◴[29 Aug 25 16:59 UTC] No.45066585[source]▶
> And there is no free CDN like Cloudflare.

Their pricing page says:

No-nonsense Free Tier

As part of the AWS free Usage Tier you can get started with Amazon CloudFront for free.

Included in Always Free Tier

1 TB of data transfer out to the internet per month 10,000,000 HTTP or HTTPS Requests per month 2,000,000 CloudFront Function invocations per month 2,000,000 CloudFront KeyValueStore reads per month 10 Distribution Tenants Free SSL certificates No limitations, all features available

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1. nromiun ◴[29 Aug 25 17:12 UTC] No.45066761{3}[source]▶
1 TB per month of data is literally nothing. A kid could rent a VPS for an hour and drain all that. What do you do after that? AWS is not going to stop your bill going up is it?

I don't care about any of those fancy serverless services. I am just talking about the cheapest CDN.

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2. didibus ◴[30 Aug 25 04:03 UTC] No.45071825[source]▶
Ah, for cheapest CDN, maybe you're right. I think BlazingCDN can also be cheap, but CLoudFlare might be the best deal. OP didn't really say there wasn't any cheaper alternative, just said "no real good alternatives".