Platforms

Cloudflare is a global CDN and security platform providing DDoS protection, WAF, DNS, and edge computing to accelerate and secure websites. It offers zero-trust access and analytics for performance insights.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a comprehensive cloud platform offering compute (EC2), storage (S3), databases (RDS), ML, and more for building scalable apps. It dominates with vast services and global regions.

Netlify is a serverless platform for hosting static websites and JAMstack applications, offering continuous deployment, CDN distribution, and serverless functions. It integrates seamlessly with Git for automated builds and deploys.

Firebase is Google's serverless platform for mobile/web apps, offering real-time database, auth, hosting, and ML tools with seamless Google integration. It abstracts backend for rapid prototyping.

Cloudflare Workers is a serverless platform for running JavaScript code at the edge, close to users, for tasks like API routing, authentication, and content transformation. It leverages Cloudflare's global network for low-latency execution.

Vercel is a platform for frontend deployment with serverless functions, edge network, and Git integration for Next.js/static sites. Focus on DX with previews.

Supabase is an open-source Firebase alternative, providing PostgreSQL DB, auth, storage, realtime, and functions as a self-hosted or managed service. It emphasizes SQL-first with Row Level Security.