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Introducing Cloudflare Basin: an open, serverless data platform, now generally available

During Birthday Week 2025, we announced the Cloudflare Data Platform, a suite of products that ingest, store, and query your analytical data. Today, we’re announcing that the platform is generally available, and we’re giving it a new name: Cloudflare Basin.

Basin is a serverless data analytics platform built on Apache Iceberg, the open standard for data lakes, and R2 Object Storage. The Basin family includes:

  • Basin Pipelines, formerly Cloudflare Pipelines, receives events from Workers, HTTP, or Cloudflare Logpush, transforms them with SQL, and writes them as Apache Iceberg tables or files in R2.
  • Basin Catalog, formerly R2 Data Catalog, manages Iceberg metadata and automatically maintains tables to keep them fast and cost-efficient.
  • Basin SQL, formerly R2 SQL, is our serverless, distributed SQL engine for querying Apache Iceberg tables directly on Cloudflare.

Basin brings an end-to-end analytics platform to the Developer Platform, enabling you to collect data from a variety of sources, such as apps, infrastructure, devices, and other Cloudflare services, then query it to answer analytical questions.

We set out to build a data platform last year when we saw two fundamental developments that changed how modern data applications were being built. First, Apache Iceberg Continue reading