# 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]] - [[DNS]] - [[DDoS]] - [[Edge Computing]] ### Developer Platform - [[Cloudflare Workers]] - [[Cloudflare Pages]] - [[Cloudflare Durable Objects]] - [[Wrangler]] ### Storage and data - [[Cloudflare R2]] - [[Cloudflare D1]] - [[Cloudflare KV]] - [[Cloudflare Vectorize]] - [[Cloudflare Hyperdrive]] ### AI and agents - [[Cloudflare Workers AI]] - [[Cloudflare Agents SDK]] - [[Cloudflare Sandbox SDK]] - [[Cloudflare Browser Rendering]] ### Async and data movement - [[Cloudflare Queues]] - [[Cloudflare Pipelines]] - [[Cloudflare Containers]] ### Network and security - [[Cloudflare Tunnel]] - [[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