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Innovating at the Edge

Integrated cloud network

The network edge is rapidly becoming the new frontier for innovation as enterprises accelerate their digital transformation efforts with hybrid and multi cloud architectures. Provisioning network services at the edge improves global web application performance and secures corporate networks, applications and devices.

Integrated cloud network

Key Drivers and Value

Cloudflare is reclaiming the network edge, and spurring innovation with a comprehensive portfolio of network services that enterprises are adopting to secure and accelerate their online digital properties. Over ~35% of the Fortune 1000 are paying Cloudflare customers, augmenting their existing cloud and on-prem infrastructure with a distributed edge cloud network.

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Secure

The network edge offers the ideal platform where security policies can be enforced to secure applications, devices and even corporate networks from Internet borne attacks.

Accelerate

The ability to cache content across a globally distributed edge network infrastructure combats the effects of latency, and reduces the number of requests that need to be made to a distant host.

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Gain Visibility

The network edge offers a unique vantage point for inspecting and reporting on traffic patterns and attack incidents that could potentially impact the digital enterprise.

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Build and Deploy

The network edge is developing as a place where new serverless and API driven applications can be built and deployed in the same instance, removing the need to manage and maintain hosted server instances.

Cloudflare One

Cloudflare One brings network-as-a-service solutions at the edge to replace or augment existing corporate networks. As the enterprise migrates to a zero trust architecture, Cloudflare One brings together Cloudflare for Teams and Magic Transit - for a holistic approach to protecting and accelerating networks, applications and devices.

Introducing Cloudflare One

Today we’re announcing Cloudflare One. It provides secure, fast, reliable, cost-effective network services, integrated with leading identity management and endpoint security providers.

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Cloudflare Access: now for SaaS apps, too

Teams can now secure SaaS applications with Zero Trust rules using Cloudflare Access.

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Cloudflare Gateway now protects teams, wherever they are

Announcing a full Secure Web Gateway at the Cloudflare edge. Cloudflare Gateway provides security wherever organizations operate via the Cloudflare WARP client.

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Cloudflare Browser Isolation

Cloudflare Browser Isolation will make your team’s web browsing both safer and faster. It’s a different kind of browser that executes code in the cloud and sends you a safe visual stream of the webpage. It works with most native browsers of choice.

Introducing Cloudflare Browser Isolation beta

Cloudflare Browser stops zero day threats from infecting corporate devices without compromising performance.

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Cloudflare + Remote Browser Isolation

Cloudflare announced today that it has purchased S2 Systems Corporation, a Seattle-area startup that has built an innovative remote browser isolation solution unlike any other currently in the market.

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Join the waiting list

Today, we’re excited to open up a beta of a third approach to keeping web browsing safe with Cloudflare Browser Isolation. Register to join now, and you’ll be among the first to try it.

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Automatic Platform Optimization

Boost the performance of WordPress sites leveraging Cloudflare’s edge compute capabilities.

Cloudflare Radar

A public-facing Internet intelligence platform for real-time visibility into traffic and security trends emerging over the Internet.

Web Analytics

For website owners who want insights into the usage of their websites, Web Analytics provides an alternative that is privacy-focused, easy-to-use, and free.

New Workers Releases

New Workers releases include Cron Triggers; a fully managed cron job scheduler to run recurring events, and Durable Objects to provide consistent edge storage on smart infrastructure at the edge.

API Shield

An API protection solution with a dedicated certificate authority (CA) to provide strong encryption for mobile applications and IoT device traffic.

Automatic Platform Optimization

Automatic Platform Optimization, enables web administrators to improve the performance of their WordPress sites by caching HTML and third-party fonts at a Cloudflare data center and reducing the number of origin round trip requests.

Introducing Automatic Platform Optimization

Automatic Platform Optimization provides built in caching support for popular hosting environments such as WordPress.

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Building Automatic Platform Optimization for WordPress using Cloudflare Workers

How we implemented the Automatic Platform Optimization for WordPress. In doing so, we have defined a new place to run WordPress plugins, at the edge written with Cloudflare Workers.

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Understanding Automatic Platform Optimization (APO) with WordPress

Read the support article on how to serve your WordPress site directly from Cloudflare's edge network and provide a consistently fast experience for your visitors.

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Web Analytics

The modern digital enterprise thrives on data to make informed business decisions. Cloudflare Web Analytics provides a privacy first solution for analyzing web traffic patterns and usage, without infringing on visitor privacy.

Free, Privacy-First Analytics for a Better Web

We’re announcing a brand new, privacy-first analytics service that’s open to everyone — even if they're not already a Cloudflare customer. And if you're a Cloudflare customer, we've enhanced our analytics to make them even more powerful than before.

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We're partnering with the Google Chrome team to bring Web Vitals measurements into Browser Insights. Web Vitals are a new set of metrics to help web developers and website owners measure and understand load time, responsiveness, and visual stability.

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Cloudflare Analytics: A quick overview

When requests pass through the Cloudflare network, we capture many data points associated with HTTP traffic, encryption, security, DNS, and Workers. The resulting metrics appear in analytics products, including our dashboard UI and APIs.

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Serverless Computing

Cloudflare Workers lets developers build serverless applications at the network edge, eliminating the need to manage and maintain servers. With integrated tools such as edge storage and powerful APIs, developers can quickly deploy applications within seconds of their end-users.

Workers Durable Objects Beta: A New Approach to Stateful Serverless

Durable Objects provide a truly serverless approach to storage and state: consistent, low-latency, distributed, yet effortless to maintain and scale. They also enable coordination and real-time collaboration between clients.

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Introducing Cron Triggers for Cloudflare Workers

Cron Triggers unlock new use cases for users who can now schedule their Workers to run periodic or recurring events – at no additional cost!

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Unlock CPU Limits with Workers Unbound Beta

Workers Unbound expands what's possible to build with serverless computing by extending CPU limits. You will now be able to build CPU-intensive applications on Workers, from machine learning to web scraping – all on a fast, secure, and affordable platform.

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