Cloudflare is an American technological company founded in 2009 by Matthew Prince, Lee Hollowie and Michel Zatlin. The headquarters is located in San Francisco. Cloudflare provides cloud services aimed at improving safety, performance and reliability of Internet applications and sites. The company entered the exchange in September 2019 near Tiker NET on the New York Stock Exchange. As of January 2025, about 19.3% of all sites on the Internet use Cloudflare services to ensure web security.
Cloudflare grocery portfolio includes more than 60 services covering the network security areas, performance and application development. Key solutions include DDOS attacks, web-appliation files (WAF), bots control, API security and Zero Trust system. In addition, the company offers content to accelerate content delivery, such as CDN, the ARGO intellectual router and load balancing.
Cloudflare actively develops the direction of artificial intelligence. In 2023, the company introduced the Workers AI platform, which allows developers to launch machine learning models on the global CloudFlare network. Partnerships were also established with companies such as NVIDIA, Microsoft and Huging Face, to integrate AI solutions into the CloudFlare infrastructure.
Cloudflare infrastructure covers more than 330 cities in more than 120 countries, processing an average of more than 50 million HTTP (S) calls per second and more than 70 million DNS queries per second. This provides high accessibility and low delay for users around the world.
The company also offers decisions for developers, including the Workers server-platform, the R2 object storage without a fee for outgoing traffic and the D1 server-baser. These tools allow you to create scalable and productive applications without the need to control infrastructure.
