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Redesigning Workers KV for increased availability and faster performance

Aug 8, 2025Alex Robinson, Tyson Trautmann
Redesigning Workers KV for increased availability and faster performance
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This post details the complete redesign of Workers KV, a critical key-value store, following a major outage caused by reliance on a third-party cloud provider. The new architecture shifts to Cloudflare's own infrastructure, using a distributed database for small objects and R2 for larger ones, ensuring high availability, eliminating single points of failure, and improving performance. This represents a significant architectural shift for a core service.

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