Can Zero Egress Give Cloudflare an Edge in Data Platform Market?

Building a modern data lakehouse requires moving data between specialised query engines and BI tools across different environments. Cloud data warehouses charge massive exit fees for egress, ie moving data across platforms, and these bills stack up when querying or federating data. Cloudflare recently launched a serverless data platform called Basin, built on Apache Iceberg and the company’s R2 object storage, which gives teams an open way to ingest, store, catalogue, and query analytical data a