Everyone says AWS is expensive. But when we tested 50 identical microservice workloads across AWS, GCP, Azure, and Cloudflare Workers, the results shocked our engineering team.

Here is the exact breakdown of cost vs performance.

Benchmark Results (10 Million Monthly Requests)

  • Cloudflare Workers / Pages: $5.00 / month (Fastest cold-start latency)
  • AWS Lambda + API Gateway: $28.40 / month
  • GCP Cloud Run: $19.20 / month
  • Fly.io Dedicated Instance: $34.00 / month

“Never pick your cloud based on marketing claims. Measure your actual P99 latency and egress costs.”

Takeaways for 2026 Web Infrastructure

  1. Move static assets to Edge Storage (Cloudflare R2 / Pages).
  2. Serverless compute is king for bursty traffic, but dedicated containers win for sustained CPU loads.
  3. Bandwidth egress fees can kill your SaaS margin if you don’t use CDN caching effectively.