Cloudflare launches Data Platform with bland 'Basin' branding, promise of fewer fees
Serverless data management without egress fees, sort of
Cloudflare has rebranded its Data Platform as Basin, signaling a move from beta to general availability. The company's new offerings under this name include Basin Pipelines, Basin Catalog, and Basin SQL, formerly known as Cloudflare Pipelines, R2 Data Catalog, and R2 SQL respectively. The name Basin, a tub-themed moniker, seems out of sync with Cloudflare's other product names like Sandboxes, Workers, and Email Services.
However, considering it's Cloudflare's Birthday Week, straightforward names might be too much to expect. Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht pitched the renamed platform as a simpler alternative to setting up hardware for data observation, offering serverless model analytics with no clusters to manage, no unnecessary data movement, and open standards for customer control.
Basin stands out for its lack of lock-in due to its reliance on Apache Iceberg and absence of egress fees, allowing data to move freely across cloud regions. Companies can store data in R2 Data Catalog and process it with Basin SQL or various external query engines. While Cloudflare claims no transfer fees for querying data using tools from different clouds, platforms, or regions, there are charges for delivering data to sinks after the included allowance.
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