The company says developers can collect, store, and query data without managing servers and without paying to move it across clouds.
Cloudflare said Oct. 1 that it has launched Basin, a data analytics platform that lets developers collect, store, and query large amounts of data without running dedicated servers. The product is generally available now.
Basin is built on Apache Iceberg, an open format for storing analytical data, and on R2, Cloudflare’s object storage service. It handles ingesting, storing, cataloging, and querying data, the company said.
The pitch
Cloudflare argued that sophisticated analytics requires a data engineering team and a large budget: servers sized ahead of demand, separate systems for collecting and analyzing data, and fees each time data moves between clouds. Basin, it said, removes much of that.
Because the data sits in an open format, any compatible tool can read it directly, with no copying or converting, the company said. Basin runs on Cloudflare’s network on demand, with no servers to manage and no charges to move data in or out.
“Developers shouldn’t need to become data infrastructure operators just to answer questions from their own data,” said Dane Knecht, Cloudflare’s chief technology officer.
Cloudflare listed three selling points: customers keep their data in an open format, there is no server setup required, and querying from tools across other clouds, platforms, or regions incurs no transfer fees.
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Early customers
Dax Raad, a co-founder of Anomaly, the company behind the open-source AI coding agent OpenCode, said it moved its data pipeline to Basin. It replaced a setup built on Amazon Web Services’ S3 storage and Athena query service with a simpler, serverless design that handles its event data, he said.
Julien Grobbelaar, head of platform at Bobsled, which helps companies distribute data to partners and customers, said Basin lets it make data products available across major data and AI platforms in any region at “a fraction of the cost” thanks to zero egress fees. Egress fees are what cloud providers charge when data leaves their network.
