Cloudflare offers a suite of distributed storage products that extend its serverless platform far beyond simple compute. KV, R2, and D1 each serve a different purpose — from configuration and caching to object storage and relational data.

This guide provides a calm, structured look at Cloudflare’s storage ecosystem and explains how to use each service with Workers and Pages Functions. The goal is clarity, not complexity.

1. The Philosophy of Cloudflare Edge Storage

Cloudflare’s storage model follows a simple idea:

Cloudflare Workers allow developers to run JavaScript and TypeScript directly at the edge — close to users and without maintaining servers. Pages Functions provide the same compute model inside Cloudflare Pages projects, giving static sites like Hugo access to dynamic capabilities such as authentication, APIs, routing logic, and integrations.

This tutorial offers a calm, practical introduction to Workers and Functions with examples that fit naturally into Hugo and JAMstack projects. No prior serverless experience is required.