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The cloud services all have their own CDN/Proxies/WAFs - AWS has Cloudfront, Azure has edge cdn etc.



None of those services is offering a low-hassle, free CDN & proxy for smaller sites. Nobody offers one for free anywhere on earth that is of the quality and scale that Cloudflare offers. That's what lured so many sites to their service so quickly in a very competitive landscape. If you've got a site that needs $0.50 per month in CDN service, they give it to you for free, along with various other benefits included at no cost. You can throw a cheap, low traffic site (or 20 of them) onto Cloudflare and never worry about cost (whether on the CDN side or otherwise), period. It's an immense cost benefit for lower traffic sites.




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