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canonical: https://aidevhub.net/blog/just-fucking-use-cloudflare
title: "Just Fucking Use Cloudflare — Stop Paying Seventeen Different Bills"
description: "Stop bleeding money on AWS, Vercel, PlanetScale, and S3. Use Cloudflare all-in-one edge platform instead with zero egress fees and generous free tiers."
author: "AI Dev Hub"
published: 2026-05-09
updated: 2026-05-09
license: CC BY 4.0
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# Stop Getting Scammed by Your Cloud Provider

You're paying **SEVENTEEN DIFFERENT BILLS** for your shitty little app.

Vercel for hosting. AWS S3 for storage. PlanetScale for database. SendGrid for email. CloudFront for CDN. And somehow you're still bleeding money on egress fees every month.

## Sound familiar?

You pretended you're an infra genius, but you're just:
- Managing 47 different dashboards
- Paying for bandwidth you don't use
- Waiting 3 seconds for cold starts
- Getting nickeled and dimed by AWS

## The Solution

**Just fucking use Cloudflare.**

One bill. One dashboard. One platform that actually gives a shit about developers.

| Service | Price | Egress |
|---------|-------|--------|
| Cloudflare Workers | **FREE** 100k req/day | **$0** |
| Cloudflare R2 | **FREE** 10GB storage | **$0 FOREVER** |
| Cloudflare D1 | **FREE** 5M reads/day | **$0** |
| Cloudflare KV | **FREE** 1M reads/day | **$0** |
| Cloudflare Queues | **FREE** 100k ops/day | **$0** |
| Cloudflare Pages | **FREE** Unlimited sites | **$0** |
| Cloudflare Workers AI | **FREE** 10k neurons/day | **$0** |

## Why Not AWS?

AWS is for enterprises that have no idea what they're doing.

You're a developer. You want to ship fast. You don't want to:
- Configure IAM roles at 3 AM
- Calculate S3 egress costs in your head
- Wait 30 seconds for Lambda cold starts
- Pay $0.09/GB to transfer your own data

## Why Not Vercel?

Vercel is cool, but it's expensive as hell.

$20/month for a hobby project? No thanks.

Cloudflare Pages is:
- **Free** for unlimited projects
- **Zero config** deployment
- **Instant rollbacks**
- **Built-in CDN**

## The Stack

Here's what a real modern stack looks like:

```
Frontend:     Next.js → Cloudflare Pages
Backend:      Cloudflare Workers
Database:     Cloudflare D1 (SQLite at the edge)
Storage:      Cloudflare R2 (S3 compatible)
Cache:        Cloudflare KV
AI:           Cloudflare Workers AI
CDN:          Built into everything
Domain:       Cloudflare Registrar (wholesale price)
```

One company. One bill. One API to learn.

## Stop Pretending

You don't need Kubernetes. You don't need Terraform. You don't need a DevOps team.

You need Cloudflare Workers + D1 + R2.

**Build. Ship. Done.**

## TL;DR

Stop paying multiple cloud bills. Use Cloudflare. It's literally free for most projects, and the egress fees that killed AWS for you? **They don't exist here.**

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