---
title: Cloudflare acquires the web framework Astro; open source and
  multi-deployment policy to remain
url: https://roboin.io/article/en/2026/01/17/cloudflare-acquires-astro-web-framework/
description: Cloudflare announced that it has acquired The Astro Technology
  Company, the developer of the web framework "Astro". Astro will continue to be
  released as open source under the MIT License, and the policy of not locking
  users into a specific vendor will also be maintained.
publishedDate: 2026-01-16T18:46:00.000Z
modifiedDate: 2026-01-16T18:46:00.000Z
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thumbnailAlt: AstroとCloudflareのロゴが並んだ画像
thumbnailCaption: Image：[The Astro Technology
  Company](https://astro.build/blog/joining-cloudflare/)
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# Cloudflare acquires the web framework Astro; open source and multi-deployment policy to remain

Cloudflare announced that it has acquired The Astro Technology Company, the developer of the web framework "Astro".

Astro will continue to be released as open source under the MIT License, and the policy of not locking users into a specific vendor will also be maintained.

## Cloudflare acquires Astro

Cloudflare announced that it has acquired The Astro Technology Company.

Employees of The Astro Technology Company will become Cloudflare employees and will continue to work full time on Astro development.

According to The Astro Technology Company's announcement, even after the acquisition by Cloudflare, Astro's MIT License will be maintained, maintenance will be actively continued, and a wide range of deployment targets will be supported as before.

It also revealed a policy of maintaining open governance and the current roadmap.

The Astro Technology Company previously set forth a vision of providing paid databases, storage, analytics, and more as an integrated offering with the framework, but explained that it did not gain sufficient traction and, as a result, there were aspects in which it hindered Astro's development.

With Cloudflare's support, The Astro Technology Company aims to build a structure that allows it to focus on Astro development.

Cloudflare introduced that Astro 6, which revamps the development server on the basis of Vite, is scheduled to arrive within the next few weeks.

Astro 6's new local development server is built on the Vite Environments API and will be able to run locally in the same runtime as the deployment destination.

Last June, Figma acquired the open-source CMS "Payload CMS", and last December, the AI development company Anthropic acquired the JavaScript runtime Bun, with major companies making a series of acquisitions of web development tools.

[Payload CMSをFigmaが買収　オープンソースは継続](https://roboin.io/article/2025/06/21/figma-acquires-payload-cms/)

## References

- [The Astro Technology Company joins Cloudflare | Astro](https://astro.build/blog/joining-cloudflare/)
- [Astro is joining Cloudflare - The Cloudflare Blog](https://blog.cloudflare.com/astro-joins-cloudflare/)