Cloudflare Launches Basin, A Serverless Data Analytics Platform
Basin takes Cloudflare's serverless model into data analytics, letting teams skip dedicated data engineering teams and the transfer fees that come with moving data between clouds.
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Cloudflare announced Cloudflare Basin, a data platform built on Apache Iceberg and Cloudflare R2 that lets teams ingest, store, catalog, and query analytical data in an open, serverless environment. Basin is generally available starting today. Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht said developers should not have to run data infrastructure just to analyze their own data. Basin carries no data transfer fees and no dedicated server management.
The platform is built on Apache Iceberg for storage and Cloudflare R2, and it runs on Cloudflare's network on demand rather than on dedicated servers that teams provision ahead of demand. Cloudflare says data stays in an open format any compatible tool can read, so no copying or conversion is required and there is no vendor lock-in.
Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht framed the pitch around control: developers should not have to run data infrastructure just to analyze their own data. Basin is generally available starting today, with developer documentation at developers.cloudflare.com/basin.
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