What is Cloudflare?
Cloudflare is an all-in-one solution that provides a global CDN with unique performance optimization functions, and web security such as WAF and DDoS protection.
Features
About performance services
- Achieve high-speed content streaming provided by Anycast network and more than 165 data centers
- Quicklyresolve DNS names and shorten response time
- Use TLS 1.3 cache control, etc., to compress data and shorten connection time, and increase performance by controlling the contents cache
- Shorten the streaming distance of contents by streaming from the Cloudflare service edge
- Lighter payload image size for faster streaming
- Reduce latency by using geography steering to route requests to the origin server
- Speed up streaming by maintaining connections and optimizing routes
- Speed up dynamic contents by compressing the origin payload
About security services
- Highly-reliable secure DNS
- Enterprise class DDoS attack protection
- Easy SSL provisioning and management
- Detection and detailed control of unauthorized traffic
- WAF with intelligence collected from the entire Cloudflare network
- Identifies and blocks malicious bot traffic
About DDoS attack protection solutions
- Absorbs DDoS attack traffic in more than 175 data centers and the global Anycast network
- Detects and blocks volumetric attacks at the edge
- Protects your site from botnets by collecting fingerprints from HTTP requests
- Blocks known malicious signatures in advance based on information shared on 14 million websites
- Uses rate limiting to block difficult-to-detect application layer attacks
The service will solve problems such as the following.
- Want to comprehensively protect devices and networks from threats on the internet
- Want to improve web access performance
- Want to reliably protect data saved in all devices
- Feel uneasy regarding cyberattacks such as DDoS attacks which are increasing in recent years
Main Functions
| Service type | Function name | Overview |
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| Performance | CDN | Cache streaming from all 175 data centers *Excludes streaming in China |
| Security | Advanced DDoS Protection |
Protects against DDoS attacks on L3, L4 (transport layer) and L7 (application layer) Uses IP reputation and automatic tools to detect and protect against cyberattacks |
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| Firewall |
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| Dedicated SSL |
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| Reliability | DN |
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