Iceberg interest is rising while R2 is still evaluated as storage alone.
Customers want fewer platform commitments, while the programme needs enough of the developer platform to show a distinct workflow.
Who you’d be doing this for
“My CTO keeps asking what this replaces, and I only have a storage answer today.”
Amelie Weber · Platform Engineering Lead
Leads the application platform team deciding where new analytics workloads should run.
What is at stake
Developers see R2 as a bucket, so Iceberg interest does not yet become a committed workload. You must weigh a focused programme against the need to show a broader developer platform path.
Why it isn’t already fixed
Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.
- repeatable programme vs bespoke architecture
- vendor consolidation vs platform expansion
- fast proof of concept vs durable adoption evidence
- Iceberg curiosity vs customer commitment
Why Cloudflare
R2 Data Catalog and Workers place object storage inside a developer platform story rather than a standalone storage comparison.
Written with these in mind
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This is the setup. The work is inside.
Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.