June 02, 2022
How does Cloudflare integrate with multi-cloud and hybrid cloud deployments?
How does Cloudflare integrate with multi-cloud and hybrid cloud deployments?
Cloudflare helps customers with cloud deployments by making their Internet properties faster, more secure, and more reliable. Cloudflare acts as a reverse proxy* that sits in front of any type of cloud infrastructure. The full Cloudflare product stack runs in this proxy service, including load balancing, the Cloudflare Web Application Firewall (WAF), DDoS protection, and more.
Like a guitar amplifier that takes sonic input from a guitar, alters the sound, and makes it louder, Cloudflare takes network traffic and accelerates it, while scrubbing out malicious traffic.
Cloudflare is infrastructure-agnostic, meaning that it can be deployed in front of any type of infrastructure or cloud deployment. Once Cloudflare is deployed, client devices accessing the cloud resources are directed to the Cloudflare network via Anycast DNS.
What kinds of cloud deployments does Cloudflare integrate with?
- Multi-cloud
- Hybrid cloud
- Public cloud
- Private cloud
How does Cloudflare assist with cloud migrations?
Cloudflare is an independent third party in any organization's cloud migration, minimizing the layers of lock-in between an organization and a cloud provider. In particular, Cloudflare minimizes the operational changes necessary at the network, and the Cloudflare dashboard provides a centralized point for security and operational control.
How does Cloudflare support serverless computing?
Serverless computing, or FaaS, is a cloud computing style in which applications are broken up into smaller functions that only run on demand and scale up on demand. Serverless computing is called that because application functions don't run on any particular server. For many types of applications, a partial or fully serverless architecture is much more efficient than other cloud architectures.
Cloudflare enables developers to build serverless applications or add to existing applications with its serverless platform, Cloudflare Workers. Cloudflare Workers is unique in that it runs on the Cloudflare edge network of data centers in 310 cities around the world, and the serverless functions run in a very lightweight, isolated execution environment.
