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Who is Cloudflare, Inc.?
Cloudflare, Inc. provides internet infrastructure and IT services that improve website and application delivery, security, and network connectivity across distributed enterprise and cloud environments.
- Content delivery, caching, DNS, and traffic acceleration for web applications and APIs
- DDoS mitigation, web application firewall, bot management, and zero trust access controls
- Secure connectivity across users, offices, clouds, and data centers through network services
- Developer and edge computing services for serverless execution, storage, and application delivery
- Observability, performance measurement, and email security related internet services
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Cloudflare operates in internet services and infrastructure, with a platform used by enterprises to publish applications, protect internet-facing assets, and connect distributed users and networks. In enterprise environments, its services are commonly placed in front of websites, APIs, and application endpoints to provide DNS resolution, caching, TLS termination, traffic filtering, and attack mitigation. Organizations also use its network to extend security controls to remote users, branch locations, and cloud workloads without depending entirely on traditional perimeter appliances.
Its current solution areas include application security, network security, performance services, developer services, and connectivity. Widely recognized product families include Cloudflare One, a zero trust and secure access service edge offering, and Cloudflare Workers, an edge computing and serverless platform. These are used alongside CDN, authoritative DNS, load balancing, DDoS protection, WAF, API security, and network interconnection services. The technical stack associated with its offerings includes anycast routing, reverse proxy architecture, edge execution, TLS and HTTPS, DNS, HTTP, QUIC, and policy-based identity and access controls.
Compared with point products that address only content delivery, only DDoS defense, or only secure remote access, Cloudflare is typically positioned as a consolidated cloud-delivered platform spanning performance, security, and connectivity. In practice, enterprises may use it to reduce direct exposure of origin infrastructure, standardize access policies across managed and unmanaged devices, and distribute application logic closer to users. That positioning is relevant to organizations adopting multicloud architectures, internet-facing APIs, hybrid work models, and branch connectivity based on software-defined networking and zero trust principles.
Within enterprise IT, the company fits most directly into internet infrastructure and IT services, with active product families and service lines centered on internet application delivery, zero trust security, edge development, and network services. That places it in the market for internet services and infrastructure while also overlapping with security, application delivery, and cloud networking categories.
Our description of Cloudflare, Inc.. Updated September 2026.
