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Cloudflare infra costs are probably 300 mil+ usd. Their gaap profit is negative, their non gaap income is less than their infra expenses. Can you imagine how much they would have to charge more or spend more if they had to duplicate or simulate their production environment in staging and for each of the 100s deployments they probably do a day?

Their main cost of revenue is these infra costs.



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