# Cloudflare Cloudflare is an American web infrastructure and security company founded in 2009 by Matthew Prince, Lee Holloway, and Michelle Zatlyn. Headquartered in San Francisco, it provides a global content delivery network (CDN), DDoS mitigation, Internet security services, and distributed domain name server (DNS) services. The company operates one of the largest networks in the world, with data centers in over 300 cities across more than 100 countries, handling a significant portion of global Internet traffic. Cloudflare's core services include protecting websites from malicious traffic, accelerating content delivery, and providing tools for developers to build and deploy applications at the edge. The company offers both free and paid tiers, making web security accessible to websites of all sizes. Notable products include Cloudflare Workers (serverless computing), Cloudflare Pages (static site hosting), R2 (object storage), and D1 (serverless SQL database). Cloudflare went public on the New York Stock Exchange in September 2019 under the ticker symbol NET. ## Related - [[CDN]] - [[Domain Name System (DNS)|DNS]] - [[DDoS]] - [[Edge Computing]] ### Developer Platform - [[Cloudflare Workers]] - [[Cloudflare Pages]] - [[Cloudflare Durable Objects]] - [[Wrangler]] - [[Cloudflare CLI]] (`cf`): the agent-first CLI for the whole Cloudflare API, Wrangler's successor (beta) - [[Cloudflare Forge]]: the open source pipeline that generates Cloudflare's SDKs, docs and the new `cf` CLI - [[Cloudflare Temporary Accounts]]: accountless Workers deploys for agents - [[Vite]] · [[Oxc]]: the VoidZero toolchain acquired June 2026 - [[tsrs]]: Rust port of the TypeScript 7 compiler, incubated in Oxc with VoidZero since October 2026 ### Storage and data - [[Cloudflare R2]] - [[Cloudflare D1]] - [[Cloudflare KV]] - [[Cloudflare Vectorize]] - [[Cloudflare Hyperdrive]] - [[Cloudflare Basin]]: serverless analytics on R2 and Apache Iceberg (Pipelines, Catalog, SQL) ### AI and agents - [[Cloudflare Workers AI]] - [[Cloudflare Clef]]: Cloudflare's own open-weight decision models, on Workers AI - [[Cloudflare AI Gateway]] - [[Cloudflare AI Search]] (formerly AutoRAG): managed RAG and hybrid search, with MCP and public endpoints - [[Cloudflare Agents SDK]] - [[Cloudflare Sandbox SDK]] - [[Cloudflare Dynamic Workers]]: Workers created at runtime to sandbox AI-generated code in isolates - [[Cloudflare Browser Rendering|Cloudflare Browser Run]] (formerly Browser Rendering) - [[KiteSurf]]: the agent-first browser that runs inside Browser Run - [[Cloudflare Artifacts]]: Git-speaking versioned file system for agents - [[Cloudflare Wallets]]: agent payments and identity - [[HTTP Payments Protocol (x402)]]: co-founded foundation for agent payments - [[IsItAgentReady]]: free scanner that scores how agent-ready a website is (Agent Readiness score) ### Async and data movement - [[Cloudflare Queues]] - [[Cloudflare Workflows]]: durable execution for multi-step code - [[Cloudflare Pipelines]] (now Basin Pipelines, part of [[Cloudflare Basin]]) - [[Cloudflare Containers]] ### Network and security - [[Cloudflare Tunnel]] - [[Cloudflare Mesh]]: private any-to-any networking for servers, devices and Workers (formerly WARP Connector) - [[Cloudflare Access and Zero Trust]] - [[Cloudflare WAF]] ### Other - [[Cloudflare Email Routing and Sending]] - [[Cloudflare Stream]] - [[Cloudflare Flagship]] ## References - https://www.cloudflare.com - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudflare - Changelog: https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/