Cloudflare Workers Has a Free Edge Runtime — 100K Requests/Day at Zero Cost

Serverless Should Be This Simple AWS Lambda needs an API Gateway, IAM roles, CloudFormation templates, and a 20-minute setup. For a function that returns JSON. Cloudflare Workers: Functions at the Edge Cloudflare Workers runs your code in 300+ data centers worldwide. Sub-millisecond cold starts. No region selection — it runs everywhere. Free Tier 100,000 requests/day 10ms CPU time per request Workers KV : 100,000 reads/day, 1,000 writes/day R2 storage : 10GB free D1 database : 5M rows read/day, 100K writes/day Queues, Cron, Durable Objects included Deploy in 3 Commands npm create cloudflare@latest my-api cd my-api npx wrangler deploy Your function is live at my-api.your-subdomain.workers.dev . Running in 300+ cities. Hello World export default { async fetch ( request : Request ): Promise < Response > { return new Response ( ' Hello from the edge! ' , { headers : { ' content-type ' : ' text/plain ' } }) } } The Full Edge Stack KV (Key-Value Store) await env . MY_KV . put ( ' user:123 '