What’s exciting is the range of options Cloudflare offers for essentially the same thing.
They really are pressing to become the backbone to easy app development. I easily see it and am especially looking forward to the more and more originless options.
I am interested in seeing pricing but another (no offense Cloudflare folks) annoying in-the-dark beta.
To spat off a few ways someone could do similar image stuff, all roughly with them pretty effectively, varying trade-offs of course (origin load, no origin, cost, etc...):
- Current image resize plan ($)
- Custom Origin Resizer + normal CF cache everything
Are they going to let you serve it from your own domain name? I’d love to have my site have a csp default-source self, and not need any other origins listed...
I love this, this is a great product for them. Cloudflare has clearly been laying the groundwork for this recently with the Image Resizing feature.
I look forward to seeing what the pricing is, it's disappointing they didn't announce it here. I feel like they've tried to obscure the pricing for Image Resizing, and only made it available to Business customers.
Would love to see Cloudflare be more upfront with the pricing around their image products, and make them available to Free/Pro customers as well.
Cloudflare Images will be priced along two dimensions: # of images stored and # of images delivered. We'll be announcing pricing details in coming weeks!
Our Image Resizing product offers this already. The Images product (what we announced today) will provide most of the features available with Image Resizing with Variants.
Reduces egress costs from less steps (where you're paying for bandwidth each time you move bits), no need to manage your own lambda functions, more predictable pricing, API out of the box for variant configuration and image association, easy turn up for existing Cloudflare customers. Would expect it's trivial to CNAME a subdomain of a domain you own to their own white label domain for this service.
I admit it has been a while since I've been familiar with specific internal AWS bandwidth costs (cost for transfers between AZs, for example), so my apologies if that was too broad of a stroke (I am familiar with AWS pricing "gotchas" where you incur unexpected costs with services). In any case, Cloudflare does not charge for bandwidth with this product. Cloudfront's egress pricing can be found here [1].
Depending on your use case (from an image hosting & CDN perspective), this product is a slam dunk vs rolling your own on AWS.
They really are pressing to become the backbone to easy app development. I easily see it and am especially looking forward to the more and more originless options.
I am interested in seeing pricing but another (no offense Cloudflare folks) annoying in-the-dark beta.
To spat off a few ways someone could do similar image stuff, all roughly with them pretty effectively, varying trade-offs of course (origin load, no origin, cost, etc...):
- Current image resize plan ($)
- Custom Origin Resizer + normal CF cache everything
- Custom Origin Resizer + tiered CF cache everything
- Custom Origin Resizer and Mirage/Polish whatever on their +plans
- Custom Origin Resizer + cache everything + ignore query strings via custom cache keys (Enterprise)
- Custom Origin Resizer + cache everything + ignore query strings via worker script to make custom cache keys
- Store the image in an array buffer in their KV store
- Worker + a WASM binding that resizes the image on the fly (they made this as a WebAssembly proof of concept)
- Now this new custom thing.
Very cool.. Love the flexibility and range.