Cloudflare
cloudflare.com- Category
- Developer Tools
- Rank
- No. 486Tools index
Previous survey · No. 492 ·
- Pricing
- Freemium
- Type
- TOOL
- Use case
- Deployment & Operations · Security & Identity
- Interfaces
- Web · API
- Date
About
CDN, DNS, domains, and edge platform — fast DNS, free SSL, DDoS protection, and domain registration all in one
What it does
According to its page, Cloudflare is a platform for building, securing, and scaling applications, agents, and digital workforces without managing infrastructure, running security, connectivity, and code across a global network of edge locations close to users and data.
Stated on the product site
- Network footprint
- The site says its network runs in over 335 cities worldwide and reaches most of the world's connected population within about 50 milliseconds.
- Threat blocking scale
- The site claims it blocks tens of billions of cyber threats every day.
- Enterprise adoption
- The site states a large share of Fortune 500 companies use Cloudflare.
- Compute product feature
- The site describes a feature called Smart Placement that moves compute closer to backend data to reduce latency.
Not stated on the site
- Pricing is not shown on the page.
- The DNS, SSL, DDoS protection, and domain registration services named in the catalogue description are not detailed on this page.
- It is not clear from the page what specific plans or tiers the platform offers.
Written from the product site at cloudflare.com.
What it can do
Accelerate website content delivery
Website files and content → Cached content served from global edge locations
Resolve domain names to IP addresses
Domain name queries → IP address responses
Register domain names
Desired domain name and registration details → Registered domain ownership
Generate SSL certificates
Domain name → SSL/TLS certificate for HTTPS encryption
Block DDoS attacks
Incoming malicious traffic → Filtered legitimate traffic to origin server
Route traffic through edge servers
User requests to website → Optimized response delivery from nearest edge location
Intel on Cloudflare
- Cloudflare opens private origins to WAF, caching, and Workers
- Cloudflare services for private origins is now generally available
- Introducing full transaction detection for Cloudflare WAF
- Cloudflare open-sources Void for deploying Vite apps and agent-built tools
- Cloudflare and OpenAI pilot: network signals improve AI search discovery
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