Application Services for Web Apps & APIs | Cloudflare

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Security and performance for web applications

Application services to secure and accelerate
web applications and APIs

Stop bad bots, protect applications and APIs from abuse, and thwart DDoS attacks, all powered by built-in threat intelligence gathered from the Cloudflare connectivity cloud, which blocks an average of ~158 billion threats per day.

Increase web application performance with infinitely scalable connectivity across over 330 global cities.

BENEFITS

Superior security and connectivity, all over the world

Connected with all networks, enterprises, and clouds
Cloudflare's application services protect millions of web properties and serve tens of millions of HTTP requests per second on average. We seamlessly connect your apps and APIs hosted in public, private and hybrid clouds, and hosted on-premises.
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Built-in application services platform intelligence
Cloudflare leverages data from various application and network sources to secure and accelerate web apps and APIs. Security, performance, compliance, and privacy functions are built in without disrupting connectivity.
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Unified and simplified Interface
Simplify security and accelerate performance of your web apps hosted anywhere with Cloudflare's connectivity cloud. Consolidate with our easy to use and integrated console, deep, request-level analytics, and machine learning assisted policy — and improve security team efficiency by 29%.
Analyst Recognition
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Cloudflare named 'Leader' in multiple Web Application and API Protect analyst reports
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Cloudflare named a "Leader" in CDN services

How Cloudflare protects and accelerates web applications

Global connectivity
Superior performance
Threat intelligence
With our connectivity cloud, content is always a blink away for incredible experiences on any device, anywhere:
  • By integrating with networks around the world, Cloudflare helps customers deliver content and services to their users more efficiently than ever.
  • Organizations can build natively from the ground up with a composable and programmable architecture. Every application service runs from every data center.
  • Cloudflare operates within 50 milliseconds of 95% of the Internet-connected population, always serving content from the nearest location.
2024 API Security and Management Report

Top use cases for application services

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Stop losing users to poor experiences
Slow-loading websites cost retailers billions every year. Cloudflare ensures websites are fast and reliable.
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Protect from DDoS attacks
Stay ahead of DDoS attackers, who continue creating new techniques and expanding their volume in their attempts to take websites offline and deny service to legitimate users.
Prevent malicious bot activity
Cloudflare Bot Management uses advanced machine learning to identify and block unwanted bots.
Discover and secure your APIs
APIs are more important than ever within application infrastructure. Gain a complete view of API usage and ensure APIs are not compromised or leaking data.
Accelerate web content
Cache static content, compress dynamic content, optimize images, and deliver video from the global Cloudflare network for the fastest possible load times.
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Augment security with threat intelligence
Cloudflare enhances existing security measures with wide-ranging threat intelligence not available anywhere else. Identify and stop the latest attacks observed in the wild.
Ensure application availability
Prevent downtime by relying on the Cloudflare network. Ensure customers and users can always access the services and content they need.
Stop losing users to poor experiences
Slow-loading websites cost retailers billions every year. Cloudflare ensures websites are fast and reliable.
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Protect from DDoS attacks
Stay ahead of DDoS attackers, who continue creating new techniques and expanding their volume in their attempts to take websites offline and deny service to legitimate users.
Prevent malicious bot activity
Cloudflare Bot Management uses advanced machine learning to identify and block unwanted bots.
Discover and secure your APIs
APIs are more important than ever within application infrastructure. Gain a complete view of API usage and ensure APIs are not compromised or leaking data.
Accelerate web content
Cache static content, compress dynamic content, optimize images, and deliver video from the global Cloudflare network for the fastest possible load times.
Security Shield Protection Icon
Augment security with threat intelligence
Cloudflare enhances existing security measures with wide-ranging threat intelligence not available anywhere else. Identify and stop the latest attacks observed in the wild.
Ensure application availability
Prevent downtime by relying on the Cloudflare network. Ensure customers and users can always access the services and content they need.
Stop losing users to poor experiences
Slow-loading websites cost retailers billions every year. Cloudflare ensures websites are fast and reliable.
Shield icon
Protect from DDoS attacks
Stay ahead of DDoS attackers, who continue creating new techniques and expanding their volume in their attempts to take websites offline and deny service to legitimate users.
Prevent malicious bot activity
Cloudflare Bot Management uses advanced machine learning to identify and block unwanted bots.
Discover and secure your APIs
APIs are more important than ever within application infrastructure. Gain a complete view of API usage and ensure APIs are not compromised or leaking data.
Accelerate web content
Cache static content, compress dynamic content, optimize images, and deliver video from the global Cloudflare network for the fastest possible load times.
Security Shield Protection Icon
Augment security with threat intelligence
Cloudflare enhances existing security measures with wide-ranging threat intelligence not available anywhere else. Identify and stop the latest attacks observed in the wild.
Ensure application availability
Prevent downtime by relying on the Cloudflare network. Ensure customers and users can always access the services and content they need.
Fashion retailer Pacsun uses Cloudflare to prevent
website outages and deter bots
Pacsun’s successes with a viral drop marketing strategy left the company with a serious dilemma. Their online sales events were as irresistible to automated bots and online profiteers as they were to genuine customers. Frequent attacks on their website and inventory during their drops left IT and security teams struggling to keep the site online.

Pacsun migrated to Cloudflare, moving more than 95% of their traffic to the Cloudflare global network, switching on the Cloudflare Web Application Firewall (WAF), secure DNS, and DDoS protection. From day one, they saw immediate benefits, accelerating their web properties, remaining online, and blocking bots like never before.

"Switching to Cloudflare, our system was 27% faster overnight. It improved our performance right off the bat — cache rates jumped immediately and things just started flowing... Cloudflare have been absolute champions at preventing potential problems, increasing our efficiency, and making our journey over the last year highly successful on every front."

Application services case studies

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Pacsun
Struggling with inventory hoarding bots incapacitating their website during critical drop sales, retailer Pacsun switched to Cloudflare to protect revenue and ensure a frictionless customer experience
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Delivery Hero
Using Cloudflare as a single network entry point for its global operations, Delivery Hero reduced complexity, enhanced global network performance, and secured its international workforce and websites
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Applied Systems
Applied Systems unifies security and networking with Cloudflare, reducing risk, improving productivity for employees, and delivering superior cloud-native experiences for customers
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Canva
Cloudflare enables Canva to scale its global operations with solutions for security, access management and serverless
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Genuine Parts Company
Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud protects 900+ GPC websites, giving them complete visibility into threats across their entire digital footprint.
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Shopify
Shopify + Cloudflare: Powering 1,000,000 storefronts on the biggest shopping weekend of the year
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Learn how Ted Baker leverages Cloudflare to create a first-class customer experience

Application security and performance products
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DDoS Protection
Protect against DDoS attacks of any size and kind.
Web Application Firewall
Protect your business-critical web applications from attacks.
CDN
Ultra-fast static and dynamic content delivery.

Resources

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3 challenges of securing and connecting application services
Learn why traditional architectures lack the agility to support modern applications and businesses, and how a connectivity cloud ensures better security, latency-free connectivity and business growth.
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Cost-effective application security and performance strategies
Learn from success stories of 7 companies who have found cost efficiencies from using Cloudflare for security — without performance trade-offs.
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The CISO's guide to API security
In recent years, data breaches and leaks through APIs have made headlines. Learn how to secure APIs and maintain customer trust.
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