Cloudflare
More info
- Founder
- Matthew Prince, Michelle Zatlyn, Lee Holloway
- Founded
- Type
- CDN, DDoS protection, DNS, edge compute, zero-trust
- Website
- cloudflare.com
- Wikipedia
- en.wikipedia.org
The internet infrastructure giant — 300+ data centres globally, handles ~20 % of all web traffic. Started as DDoS protection, is now the whole edge stack.
Public 2019. Stack: CDN + WAF + DDoS + DNS (1.1.1.1) + Workers (edge compute) + R2 (S3 competitor, no egress) + D1 (SQLite edge) + Zero Trust (Access, Tunnel). Launched Workers AI in 2024 — runs Llama, Stable Diffusion on the edge. Pushed theme: fight the "egress tax" against AWS. Competitors: Akamai, Fastly, AWS CloudFront.