Workers Durable Objects Beta: A New Approach to Stateful Serverless

Insanely awesome feature add (much needed for truly “serverless” application development). The power to scale here without insane infrastructure headache is amazing.

One day some kid is totally going to build a single-person billion dollar company from his mom’s basement.

Re: Workers Durable Objects Beta: A New Approach to Stateful Serverless

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Post by phn » Mon, Sep 28, 2020, 1:52 PM UTC

I cannot find any word on pricing, is it included in the regular workers $5/mo plan?

Re: Workers Durable Objects Beta: A New Approach to Stateful Serverless

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Post by kentonv » Mon, Sep 28, 2020, 1:59 PM UTC

phn wrote: post #4

I cannot find any word on pricing, is it included in the regular workers $5/mo plan?

For those in the beta, it's currently free. We are still working out what pricing will look like post-beta. We realized we need to see how people actually use it and get some feedback before we could settle on the right pricing structure... that's what betas are for.

Re: Workers Durable Objects Beta: A New Approach to Stateful Serverless

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Post by greg-m » Mon, Sep 28, 2020, 2:11 PM UTC

phn wrote: post #4

I cannot find any word on pricing, is it included in the regular workers $5/mo plan?

Hey, I'm Greg, the PM working on Durable Objects at Cloudflare. As part of the private beta, we're looking to get feedback on the best way to price Durable Object so they're accessible for all applications - small or large.

While we're in beta, storage access will be free. As we're thinking about it now, once we're out of beta this wouldn't be included in the base $5/mo plan.

Since there's both a compute component (a Durable Object runs code, like a Worker) and a storage component (for storage operations) to the product, we want the long-term pricing model to mesh those two in a transparent, competitive way.

While we're not finalized on price yet, you can expect that costs for storage will be cheaper than existing services like AWS DynamoDB or Google Cloud Firestore when we move out of beta.

Re: Workers Durable Objects Beta: A New Approach to Stateful Serverless

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Post by eastdakota » Mon, Sep 28, 2020, 2:17 PM UTC

phn wrote: post #4

I cannot find any word on pricing, is it included in the regular workers $5/mo plan?

As others said, we’re figuring out pricing during beta but hope to keep it in-line with pricing for Workers KV. And it may be possible for us to get pricing even lower than that.

Re: Workers Durable Objects Beta: A New Approach to Stateful Serverless

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Post by tmikaeld » Mon, Sep 28, 2020, 2:19 PM UTC

greg-m wrote: post #6

phn wrote: post #4

I cannot find any word on pricing, is it included in the regular workers $5/mo plan?

Hey, I'm Greg, the PM working on Durable Objects at Cloudflare. As part of the private beta, we're looking to get feedback on the best way to price Durable Object so they're accessible for all applications - small or large. While we're in beta, storage access will be free. As we're thinking about it now, once we're out of beta this wouldn't be included in the base $5/mo plan. Since there's both a compute component (a…

"you can expect that costs for storage will be cheaper than existing services like AWS DynamoDB or Google Cloud Firestore"

That's a great lead for pricing.

Re: Workers Durable Objects Beta: A New Approach to Stateful Serverless

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Post by tmikaeld » Mon, Sep 28, 2020, 2:22 PM UTC

greg-m wrote: post #6

phn wrote: post #4

I cannot find any word on pricing, is it included in the regular workers $5/mo plan?

Hey, I'm Greg, the PM working on Durable Objects at Cloudflare. As part of the private beta, we're looking to get feedback on the best way to price Durable Object so they're accessible for all applications - small or large. While we're in beta, storage access will be free. As we're thinking about it now, once we're out of beta this wouldn't be included in the base $5/mo plan. Since there's both a compute component (a…

Do you expect data transfer (bandwidth) to still be free?

Re: Workers Durable Objects Beta: A New Approach to Stateful Serverless

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Post by visarga » Mon, Sep 28, 2020, 2:29 PM UTC

How would you debug and upgrade your durable objects?