Workers for Platforms

Make your platform programmable

Workers for Platforms provides a managed execution environment where customers deploy and run code on Cloudflare’s global network. This enables customization at scale, empowering customers to build logic, automation, and applications.

Effortless Scalability

No dedicated infrastructure or teams are needed for customer code execution. Workers for Platforms scales automatically on demand.

Customer Empowerment

Customers can customize experiences, trigger event-based actions, or extend your platform without needing your engineers to write code.

Secure Code Execution

Customer code runs in an isolated environment with built-in controls, eliminating security and compliance risks.

Workers for Platforms Architecture

A managed environment for custom code on Cloudflare's global network

Faster

Slower

You can use Workers for Platforms to:

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Full-Stack Applications

Extend static sites into full-stack applications with databases, KV-namespaces, and object storage, all within a managed execution environment.

Personalized Experiences

Enable customers to tailor sites with custom logic, leveraging Cloudflare’s global network for deployment and execution.

Custom Integrations

Extend platform capabilities with custom integrations that scale on demand, without the need for extensive infrastructure.

Event-Driven Automation

Empower customers to automate tasks based on events, within a secure, isolated environment for code execution.

Workers for Platforms Code Examples

Discover how to customize, empower customers, and build applications with Workers for Platforms.

export default {
  async fetch(request, env, ctx): Promise<Response> {

    await env.KV.put('KEY', 'VALUE');
    const value = await env.KV.get('KEY');
    const allKeys = await env.KV.list();
    await env.KV.delete('KEY');

    return new Response(
      JSON.stringify({
        value: value,
        allKeys: allKeys,
      }),
    );
  },
};

npm

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Over 10 million developers around the world rely on the npm Registry to download packages over 1 billion times a day. We invested in Cloudflare Workers to improve our global performance, and now with the Cloudflare Workers globally available key-value store (Cloudflare Workers KV), we can make performance improvements that used to be impossible. "

Laurie Voss Co-founder and Chief Data Officer

Compute

Workers

Global serverless functions

Containers

Any language, anywhere

Sandboxes

Secure code execution

Durable Objects

Stateful compute

Browser Rendering

Automated browsers

Workflows

Process orchestration

Storage

Egress-free storage

Data Platform

Ingest, Catalog & Query

Hyperdrive

Global databases

Serverless SQL

Key-value speed

Queues

Message processing

Artifacts

Git-native versioned storage

Workers AI

Edge AI models

Agents

Build stateful AI agents

AI Gateway

AI observability

Vectorize

Vector database

AI Search

Instant retrieval

Media

Images

Image optimization

Stream

Video streaming

RealtimeKit

Live comms

TURN / SFU

Real-time infra

Network

DNS

Fast DNS

CDN

Faster delivery

WAF

App protection

Load Balancing

Zero downtime

Rate Limiting

Abuse prevention

Bot Mitigation

Block bots

Turnstile

Privacy-first bot checks

DDoS Protection

DDoS mitigation

SASE / Zero Trust

SASE

Unified zero trust platform

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