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# Cloudflare

> Cloudflare is a global cloud connectivity company operating in 335+ cities worldwide. It provides a unified platform spanning developer infrastructure (serverless compute, databases, AI inference, and storage), application security (WAF, DDoS mitigation, bot management, and API Shield), Zero Trust / SASE (Access, Gateway, Browser Isolation, DLP, and Email Security), and network services (CDN, DNS, load balancing, and Magic Transit). Cloudflare powers approximately 20% of Internet traffic and protects millions of websites, applications, APIs, and enterprise networks.

This is the main Cloudflare website at cloudflare.com. For technical documentation, see developers.cloudflare.com.

## About Cloudflare

Cloudflare launched in 2010 and went public in 2019 (NYSE: NET). It operates one of the world's largest and most interconnected networks, spanning 335+ cities and 125+ countries, with interconnections to 13,000+ networks. The network operates within 50 ms of 95% of the Internet-connected world.

Cloudflare serves three primary audiences:
- **Developers** building applications on its global compute, storage, and AI platform
- **Security teams** protecting web applications, APIs, networks, and users from attacks and data loss
- **Enterprise IT** replacing legacy VPN and network appliances with its Zero Trust / SASE platform (Cloudflare One)

Key facts:
- 335+ cities, 125+ countries
- 500 Tbps total network capacity
- Interconnected with 13,000+ networks
- More than 220 cities running GPUs for AI inference worldwide
- <50 ms from 95% of Internet-connected users
- Processes ~8.4 trillion DNS queries/day across […] and authoritative DNS
- ~20% of web traffic flows through Cloudflare
- 42% of the Fortune 500 are paying Cloudflare customers
- Blocks an average of 234 billion cyber threats per day (Q1 2026)
- Serves over 102 million HTTP requests per second on average, 145 million at peak
- Named a Leader in Forrester Wave™ for Web Application Firewalls (2025)
- Largest DDoS attack ever mitigated: 31.4 Tbps (November 2025)
- All pages on this site are available in markdown format by appending .md to the URL

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## Developer Platform - Compute

Workers run on V8 isolates for zero cold starts; Containers support heavier workloads. Both deploy globally across Cloudflare's network, not to specific regions. Durable Objects and supporting primitives complete the platform.

- [Workers](https://www.cloudflare.com/products/workers.md): Serverless functions with zero cold starts - deploy JS, TS, Python, or Rust to 335+ cities globally
- [Containers](https://www.cloudflare.com/products/containers.md): Run any language or Docker image globally; no Kubernetes, no regions, scales to zero
- [Durable Objects](https://www.cloudflare.com/products/durable-objects.md): Stateful serverless with built-in WebSockets and embedded SQLite; ideal for real-time and multiplayer apps
- [Sandboxes](https://www.cloudflare.com/products/sandboxes.md): Isolated secure environments for running untrusted or AI-generated code
- [Workflows](https://www.cloudflare.com/products/workflows.md): Durable multi-step execution engine with automatic retries and state persistence
- [Cloudflare Pages](https://www.cloudflare.com/products/pages.md): Build and deploy frontend sites globally
- [Workers for Platforms](https://www.cloudflare.com/products/workers-for-platforms.md): Multi-tenant compute - let your customers run sandboxed code on your platform
- [Workers Observability](https://www.cloudflare.com/products/workers-observability.md): First-party logs, traces, and metrics for Workers applications
- [Browser Run](https://www.cloudflare.com/products/browser-run.md): Headless browser automation for screenshots, scraping, PDF generation, and AI agent web access
- [Email Service](https://www.cloudflare.com/products/email-service.md): Send and receive email directly from Workers
- [Artifacts](https://www.cloudflare.com/products/artifacts.md): Git-native versioned storage - create millions of repos, fork from GitHub, give every agent its own branch

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## Developer Platform - Storage

- [R2](https://www.cloudflare.com/products/r2.md): S3-compatible object storage with zero egress fees; ideal for training data, media, and backups
- [D1](https://www.cloudflare.com/products/d1.md): Serverless SQLite database with global read replication, time-travel backups, and Prisma/Drizzle support
- [KV](https://www.cloudflare.com/products/kv.md): Globally distributed key-value store with <5 ms hot read latency; ideal for config, feature flags, and auth tokens
- [Queues](https://www.cloudflare.com/products/queues.md): Message queue for reliable async processing between Workers
- [Hyperdrive](https://www.cloudflare.com/products/hyperdrive.md): Accelerates queries to existing PostgreSQL/MySQL databases from the edge by pooling and caching connections globally
- [Basin](https://www.cloudflare.com/products/data-platform.md): Serverless analytics platform on R2 using Apache Iceberg; ingest via Basin Pipelines and query with Basin SQL, Snowflake, or DuckDB
- [Cache Reserve](https://www.cloudflare.com/products/cache-reserve.md): Persistent CDN caching backed by R2 to reduce origin load for long-tail content

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## Developer Platform - AI

Cloudflare's AI platform lets developers run inference, build agents, store vectors, and observe model calls - all on the same global network.

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