I have the exactly opposite experience of yours. Cloudflare DX is by far the best among the cloud providers I've tried. Today, it's not that complicated to setup wrangler with credentials to your Cloudflare account in any mayor CI. If you have multiple services in your repo you can have multiple directories with each containing its own wrangler.toml. You can even connect these services with service bindings (beta feature still).
In my mind Cloudflare gets the big picture of DX exactly right. When deploying your service the deployment itself is not stateful, there's only one step to it: 'wrangler deploy'. Compare that to AWS Lambda: 1. build you code, 2. pack into a zip file, 3. make sure the S3 bucket exists, 4. upload the zip to the bucket, 5. deploy lambda, 6. update API gateway... And don't even get me started on Cloudfront - every change takes like 5min to apply.
Every so often I do encounter some rough edges, like service bindings binding to deployed services or workerd binary dynamically linking to some shared libraries so wrangler installed through npm doesn't work on Nixos etc. That said I respect the approach Cloudflare team is taking by focusing on the really important stuff first.
> Compare that to AWS Lambda: 1. build you code, 2. pack into a zip file, 3. make sure the S3 bucket exists, 4. upload the zip to the bucket, 5. deploy lambda, 6. update API gateway... And don't even get me started on Cloudfront - every change takes like 5min to apply.
For AWS are you aware of SAM for CloudFormation[1]? The CDK[2]? You picked the best representation of Cloudflare (via `wrangler.toml`) but the worst representation for AWS of the developer experience. `cdk deploy` is pretty seamless and similar to `wrangler deploy` [3].
In my mind Cloudflare gets the big picture of DX exactly right. When deploying your service the deployment itself is not stateful, there's only one step to it: 'wrangler deploy'. Compare that to AWS Lambda: 1. build you code, 2. pack into a zip file, 3. make sure the S3 bucket exists, 4. upload the zip to the bucket, 5. deploy lambda, 6. update API gateway... And don't even get me started on Cloudfront - every change takes like 5min to apply.
Every so often I do encounter some rough edges, like service bindings binding to deployed services or workerd binary dynamically linking to some shared libraries so wrangler installed through npm doesn't work on Nixos etc. That said I respect the approach Cloudflare team is taking by focusing on the really important stuff first.