Global Network: Cloudflare operates a global network spanning more than 335 cities across 125+ countries. Its distributed infrastructure places services close to users, helping reduce latency and improve reliability. Cloudflare says its network reaches about 95% of the Internet-connected population within roughly 50 milliseconds.
Content Delivery Network: Cloudflare’s CDN caches website content at edge locations, allowing users to receive files from nearby servers instead of repeatedly contacting the origin. This reduces latency, improves loading speeds, and helps websites handle large traffic volumes more efficiently.
Anycast Routing: Cloudflare uses Anycast routing to direct requests toward nearby network locations. The approach distributes traffic across its global infrastructure, helping applications maintain performance and resilience during congestion, traffic spikes, and network disruptions.
DDoS Protection: Cloudflare processes traffic across its distributed network to detect and mitigate DDoS attacks closer to their source. Its systems operate across global data centers, allowing attacks to be absorbed without sending traffic toward distant centralized scrubbing locations.
Web Security: Cloudflare combines services such as Web Application Firewall, DDoS protection, DNS, and Zero Trust security on its network. This lets organizations inspect and protect traffic using infrastructure positioned between users and applications.
Edge Computing: Cloudflare extends computing closer to users through its edge network. Its infrastructure supports applications, storage, databases, and AI inference across distributed locations, reducing the distance between users and the computing resources handling their requests.
Internet Connectivity: Cloudflare connects directly with more than 13,000 networks, including major internet service providers, cloud providers, and enterprises. These interconnections help traffic avoid unnecessary network hops while supporting faster and more predictable connectivity for applications worldwide.