Question 1

Is Azion a good Cloudflare alternative?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Azion ranks among the leading Cloudflare alternatives and competitors, offering compatible APIs for Workers, KV, and R2 alongside integrated WAF, DDoS protection, and bot management on a single platform. Every product and feature is on every plan, and $300 in free credits make it easy to evaluate the switch.

Question 2

Is KV Store compatible with Cloudflare Workers KV?

Accepted Answer

Yes. KV Store provides a compatible API with Cloudflare Workers KV, making it easier to move existing applications or use familiar patterns.

Question 3

How does Workers code map to Azion Functions?

Accepted Answer

Azion Functions supports TypeScript and JavaScript with web-standard APIs and Node.js polyfills. You can deploy using the Azion CLI, Git integration with continuous deployment, or frameworks like Next.js, Vue, React, Angular, Gatsby, and Astro. Most Workers code requires minimal changes.

Question 4

What execution time limits does Azion Functions support?

Accepted Answer

Functions support up to 5 minutes of CPU time per execution and bundle sizes up to 20 MB, compared to Cloudflare's 30-second CPU time limit. This allows you to run complex workloads without splitting logic across multiple functions.

Question 5

Are there cold starts on Azion Functions?

Accepted Answer

No. Azion Functions execute on arrival on distributed infrastructure with zero cold start latency. You get consistent first-request performance without the unpredictable delays common in serverless platforms.

Question 6

What latency can I expect globally?

Accepted Answer

Sub-30ms latency across 120+ locations worldwide. Azion's distributed architecture ensures fast response times for users everywhere, with automatic routing to the nearest data center.

Question 7

How does Azion recover from a location failure compared with Cloudflare?

Accepted Answer

When a Cloudflare location fails, recovery waits on BGP: networks across the internet must converge on a new route, which can take seconds to minutes and is outside Cloudflare's control, and BGP can't contain a bad configuration. On Azion, BGP is one routing layer, not the only one. Each location is its own failure domain, Edge DNS steers users away from unavailable locations, load balancing and failover reroute traffic on every plan, and stale cache keeps content online when the origin fails.

Question 8

How does pricing compare to Cloudflare?

Accepted Answer

Cloudflare Business costs $250 a month, while Enterprise has no public price and starts around $3,000. On Azion you choose how to pay: a fixed-fee plan with included usage, on-demand pricing with configurable spend limits, or commitment discounts with Reserved Capacity and Savings Plans. Every product and feature is on every plan, with no egress charges between services, and you get $300 in free credits valid for 365 days to start testing.

Question 9

What replaces Cloudflare WAF and DDoS protection?

Accepted Answer

Cloudflare WAF rules map to Azion Web Application Firewall, and DDoS protection is included natively on Azion's network. Traffic filtering policies from Cloudflare Gateway can be recreated with Azion Firewall and Network Shield. Cloudflare requires an Enterprise contract for Bot Management and API Shield; on Azion, Bot Manager and every other product are available on every plan.

Question 10

How does Cloudflare R2 map to Azion Object Storage?

Accepted Answer

Cloudflare R2 buckets sync to Azion Object Storage using S3-compatible APIs, so your existing tools and SDKs keep working. Transfer objects with standard S3 tooling, validate access patterns, and update your application endpoints, with no egress fees between Azion services.

Question 11

Is there vendor lock-in with Azion?

Accepted Answer

No. Azion uses S3-compatible APIs for Object Storage, standard web APIs for Functions, and portable code patterns. You can move away at any time without proprietary dependencies or mandatory contracts locking you in.

Question 12

What support is available during the move?

Accepted Answer

Documentation, step-by-step technical guides, and references cover each workstream, and you get $300 in free credits valid for 365 days with no credit card required. Enterprise and Mission-Critical Support add 24×7 assistance, direct access to R&D engineers during business hours, and a first response in under 15 minutes for business-critical outages, compared with under one hour on Cloudflare Enterprise Premium support.

Question 13

Can I run both platforms in parallel?

Accepted Answer

Yes. You can run Cloudflare and Azion side by side and shift traffic in stages using DNS configuration. This allows for testing, validation, and a smooth transition without service interruption.

Capability	Azion	Cloudflare
Delivery, compute, storage, and security on one platform	Full support	Full support
Single console for every workstream	Full support	Full support
Configuration and rule changes live in seconds	Full support	Full support
JavaScript and WebAssembly runtime	Full support	Full support
Cold-start-free function execution	Full support	Full support
Function execution beyond 30 seconds of CPU time	Full support	Partial support
AI inference on the platform	Full support	Full support
Distributed key-value store	Full support	Full support
S3-compatible object storage	Full support	Full support
Distributed SQL with ACID and vector search in one product	Full support	Partial support
Managed WAF for applications and APIs	Full support	Full support
API discovery and protection without an enterprise plan	Full support	Partial support
Bot management without an enterprise plan	Full support	Partial support
DDoS protection included with delivery	Full support	Full support
Network-layer firewall	Full support	Full support
Tiered caching and origin offload	Full support	Full support
Image and video optimization	Full support	Full support
Authoritative DNS and load balancing	Full support	Full support
Load balancing and failover included on every plan	Full support	Partial support
Real-time metrics and event search	Full support	Full support
Log streaming without an enterprise plan	Full support	Partial support
Real-user monitoring	Full support	Full support
No egress charges between platform services	Full support	Full support
Published pay-as-you-go pricing	Full support	Partial support
Every product and feature on every plan	Full support	Not available
First response in under 15 minutes on Enterprise support	Full support	Partial support

On Cloudflare, what you get depends on the plan you pay for.

Azion gives you more than one way to recover

Three ways to pay

Every feature, on every plan

Failures stay local

Recovery that doesn't wait on BGP

Answers in minutes

Real-time data on every plan

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