Cloudflare, Inc. is a connectivity cloud company that brings security, networking, and developer services together on a single global platform. Its platform is designed to help organizations connect and protect employees, applications, networks, and AI workloads while reducing operational complexity through one network and one control plane.
Alongside enterprise security and connectivity, Cloudflare, Inc. provides a developer platform for building and running full-stack, media, data, and AI applications on its global network. That combination positions Cloudflare, Inc. as both an infrastructure layer for securing digital operations and a platform for developers building distributed applications with compute, storage, media, and AI services.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Cloudflare, Inc. organizes its portfolio across application services, SASE and workspace security, network services, and its developer platform. Across those areas, it focuses on securing web applications and APIs, protecting users and outbound traffic, connecting branch offices and cloud environments, and giving teams a unified control plane for policy, observability, and traffic management.
Cloudflare, Inc. also emphasizes integration with existing technology stacks rather than forcing wholesale replacement. Its platform supports cloud and SaaS integrations, identity-provider integrations for access control, and multi-cloud connectivity workflows spanning AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud environments.
Products and Services
- Cloudflare One: Cloudflare, Inc.’s SASE platform that converges zero trust access, secure web gateway, CASB, network-as-a-service, and firewall-as-a-service capabilities for workforce and network security.
- Cloudflare Workers: A serverless application platform for building, deploying, and scaling applications across Cloudflare, Inc.’s global network without managing infrastructure.
- Workers AI: An AI inference service that lets developers run machine learning models on serverless GPUs across Cloudflare, Inc.’s network through a unified API.
- AI Gateway: An AI control plane for routing, caching, observability, billing visibility, and guardrails across multiple model providers and AI workloads.
- Cloudflare R2: An S3-compatible distributed object storage service built for large volumes of unstructured data and differentiated by zero egress fees.
- Cloudflare D1: A serverless SQL database service for application developers, with SQL compatibility and point-in-time recovery features.
- Cloudflare Images: An end-to-end image pipeline for storing, resizing, optimizing, and delivering images at scale.
- Cloudflare RealtimeKit: A developer toolkit for adding real-time video and voice experiences using SDKs and Cloudflare, Inc.’s underlying realtime infrastructure.
- Cloudflare Pages: A serverless full-stack platform for building and deploying frontend and full-stack web applications with Git-based workflows.
- Cloudflare Stream: A managed media service for live and on-demand video that handles upload, storage, encoding, and delivery through one API.
- Cloudflare WAF: A web application firewall that uses platform threat intelligence and machine learning to block common and emerging application-layer attacks.
- Cloudflare Access: An identity-aware access service that gives users secure access to internal applications and infrastructure without a traditional VPN.
- Cloudflare WAN: A cloud-delivered WAN service for any-to-any connectivity across branch sites, retail locations, data centers, and cloud resources.
Target Customers
Cloudflare, Inc. primarily targets enterprises that need to modernize security, networking, and application delivery at the same time. Its messaging is especially aligned to CIO-, CISO-, and CTO-led teams that are consolidating point products, supporting hybrid work, securing public applications and APIs, connecting distributed infrastructure, and enabling safer AI adoption.
Cloudflare, Inc. also serves developers building full-stack and AI applications, as well as organizations in public sector, healthcare, financial services, and retail and ecommerce. In addition, it maintains offerings and guidance for small and medium-sized businesses, indicating a customer base that spans individual development teams through large regulated organizations.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplace
- AWS Marketplace: Cloudflare, Inc. has a verified AWS Marketplace seller presence and documents AWS integrations that span application delivery, S3-related security visibility, and multi-cloud networking workflows.
- Azure Marketplace: Cloudflare, Inc. has Azure Marketplace presence through its Cloudflare Tunnel virtual machine offering and also documents broader Microsoft Azure integrations for security, performance, and multi-cloud connectivity.
- Google Cloud: Cloudflare, Inc. documents Google Cloud integrations, including security and performance support for Google Cloud-hosted applications and multi-cloud networking connectivity for Google Cloud environments.
Key People
- Matthew Prince: Co-founder & CEO
- Michelle Zatlyn: Co-founder & President
- Thomas Seifert: Chief Financial Officer
- Grant Bourzikas: Chief Security Officer
- Dane Knecht: Chief Technology Officer
- Stephanie Cohen: Chief Strategy Officer
- Tom Evans: Chief Partner Officer
- Alissa Starzak: Vice President, Deputy Chief Legal Officer & Global Head of Public Policy
Key Facts
- Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States
- Employees: 5,156
- Annual Revenue: $2.17B
- Parent Company: None
- Subsidiaries: 18+ subsidiaries, including Cloudflare Ltd., Cloudflare Pte. Ltd., Area 1 Security, LLC, Cloudflare Japan K.K., and Cloudflare Switzerland GmbH
- Publicly Listed: NYSE: NET
Analyst Recognitions
- Gartner: 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SASE Platforms — Visionary. 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms — Challenger.
- Forrester: 2026 The Forrester Wave: Edge Development Platforms, Q1 2026 — Leader. 2025 The Forrester Wave: Web Application Firewall Solutions, Q1 2025 — Leader. 2025 The Forrester Wave: Serverless Development Platforms, Q2 2025 — Strong Performer.
- IDC: 2024 IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Edge Delivery Services 2024 Vendor Assessment — Leader.
