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What is Cloudflare?

Cloudflare is a global network designed to make everything you connect to the Internet secure, private, fast, and reliable.

How can you use Cloudflare?

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Secure, optimize and accelerate websites and applications

Make applications and websites fast, available, scalable and safe with our global threat protection network. Stay online regardless of traffic spikes, attacks, or outages. Get performance and security from our industry leading network for a better user experience.

Website & App Services
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Secure your workforce from anywhere and everywhere

At home or in the office, your workforce requires secure access to internal tools and applications. Cloudflare Zero Trust enables seamless, identity and software-defined security. Secure your remote teams, devices, and data. All without sacrificing performance or usability.

Zero Trust Services
Network scale

All-in-one solution for network security & scalability

Networking solutions to help connect, secure, and accelerate networks. Without the cost or complexity of legacy network hardware. Upgrade to a single global network with built-in, software-defined Zero Trust services, DDoS mitigation, firewalls, and traffic acceleration.

Network Services
Platform apps

Store data and improve developer timelines

Our developer platform improves productivity and skips time-wasting deployment steps when your developers get a straight path from code to deployment. With compute and storage services to deliver serverless applications to deploy your full-stack applications.

Developer Platform

What makes Cloudflare different?

What is Cloudflare Layer Diagram

Cloudflare’s architecture gives you an integrated set of L3-L7 network services, all accessible from a single dashboard. It is designed to run every service on every server in every data center across our global network. It also gives your developers a flexible, Internet-scale platform to deploy serverless code instantly across the globe. No software or hardware is required. Simple to set up, use, and maintain.

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A global immune system for your network.

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We have built security into every component of the network. Cloudflare’s 197 Tbps network blocks an average of 112 billion threats per day, including some of the largest DDoS attacks ever recorded. Each and every login, request, and response that goes through our network strengthens the machine learning that we apply to detect and block threats at the edge, before they ever reach your organization.

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Compliance and privacy are built-in.

Cloudflare Compliance and Privacy

Cloudflare’s network is built with data protection in mind. We are a privacy-first company with end-to-end encryption. We comply with local regulations for data locality and storage. We do not generate revenue from advertising, and thus default against the collection and retention of personal data we process on your behalf.

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Your own fast-lane on the Internet.

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Cloudflare’s global network is often faster than the Internet. We provide direct connections to all major cloud providers and interconnect with nearly every service provider around the world. We have data centers in over 300 cities that deliver sub-50-millisecond latency to 95% of the Internet users in the world.

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Built for enterprises large and small

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Cloudflare provides the services that were once only available to Internet giants and makes them available to everyone. Our flexible and programmable global network was built to serve companies and organizations of all sizes - from individual developers to large corporations. We deploy products that are easy to use, continuously improved, and cost effective.

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Get started with Cloudflare

Protect your Internet presence

With Cloudflare, you can set up a domain in less than 5 minutes. Keep your hosting provider. No code changes required.

Protect and accelerate all of your websites, apps, and APIs with unmetered DDoS protection, a global CDN, and more.

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Implement Zero Trust access

With Cloudflare Zero Trust, protecting your global workforce, applications and data does not require any hardware, software, or complicated licensing.

You can start securing the first 50 seats on your team for free.

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Build serverless applications

With Cloudflare Workers, you can deploy serverless code instantly across the globe to give it exceptional performance, reliability, and scale.

You can deploy up to 30 Worker scripts and 100,000 requests per day for free.

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Learn about Cloudflare’s Enterprise Plan

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Does your organization demand advanced tools, support, and reporting? With Cloudflare’s Enterprise Plan, you get access to enterprise-grade security and performance, guaranteed reliability and uptime SLAs, and exclusive access to premium products, features, and 24/7/365 support.

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Cloudflare named a 2022 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for CDN and WAAP

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Learn what enterprise tech professionals love about Cloudflare's global network.

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Trusted by millions of Internet properties

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