Smart Placement is a unique Cloudflare feature that can make decisions to move your Worker to run in a more optimal location (such as closer to a database). Instead of always running in the default location (the one closest to where the request is received), Smart Placement uses certain “heuristics” (rules and thres...
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Workers, Pages - Smart Placement is smarter about running Workers and Pages Functions in the best locations
Cloudflare Developer Platform Changelog · 2025-03-22
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