Are Cloudflare Workers a replacement to AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, etc?

Developers Workers
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For Workers & Pages, what is the name of the domain?

example.com

What is the issue or error you’re encountering

Looking for a replacement of AWS Lambda - I want to host FFMPEG on Cloudflare and run python scripts / functions to convert videos from MP4 to AVI. Possible with Cloudflare functions / workers?

What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?

I am looking for alternatives to AWS Lambda, and it is hard to tell if Cloudflare provides a competing solution that is cost-effective. Please help!

What are the steps to reproduce the issue?

I am looking for alternatives to AWS Lambda, and it is hard to tell if Cloudflare provides a competing solution that is cost-effective. Please help!

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Hello @kp1234,

This blog post provides in-depth information on the topic you’ve mentioned in your query: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-containers-coming-2025/

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Thank you. I assume, then, that FFMPEG cannot be run using Cloudflare workers alone, and I would have to wait for Containers to launch in a few months?

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Yes that’s correct

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