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Use the list below for reference architecture documentation that relates to a solution area you are interested in.

Cloudflare Connectivity Cloud

Content that pertains to the Cloudflare platform in general.

Reference architectures

• Cloudflare security reference architecture
• Multi-vendor Application Security and Performance Reference Architecture
• Protect network infrastructure with Magic Transit
• Protect Hybrid Cloud Networks with Cloudflare Magic Transit

Reference architecture diagrams

• Protecting ISP and telecommunications networks from DDoS attacks

Design guides

• Extend Cloudflare’s Benefits to SaaS Providers’ End-Customers

Zero Trust / SASE

Architecture documentation related to using Cloudflare for Zero Trust, SSE and SASE initiatives for protecting your applications, data, employees and the corporate network.

Reference architectures

• Evolving to a SASE architecture with Cloudflare
• Using Cloudflare SASE with Microsoft

Reference architecture diagrams

• Access to private apps without having to deploy client agents
• Securing data at rest
• Securing data in transit
• Securing data in use
• Extend ZTNA with external authorization and serverless computing

Design guides

• Building zero trust architecture into your startup
• Network-focused migration from VPN concentrators to Zero Trust Network Access
• Using a zero trust framework to secure SaaS applications

Implementation guides

• Secure your Internet traffic and SaaS apps
• Replace your VPN
• Deploy Zero Trust Web Access

Networking

Reference architecture diagrams

• Protect public networks with Cloudflare
• Bring your own IP space to Cloudflare

Application Performance

Content related to DNS, caching, load balancing and other Cloudflare services designed to improve application reliability and performance.

Reference architectures

• Content Delivery Network
• Load Balancing

Application Security

Content related to protecting your applications from threats such as DDoS attack, SQL injection, exploiting application vulnerabilities, scraping API data and more.

Reference architecture diagrams

• Bot management

Design guides

• Secure application delivery

Developer Platform

Architecture content for our developer platform.

Reference architecture diagrams

AI

• Automatic captioning for video uploads
• Composable AI architecture
• Content-based asset creation
• Multi-vendor AI observability and control
• Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
• Ingesting BigQuery Data into Workers AI

Serverless

• Optimizing Image Delivery with Cloudflare Image Resizing and R2
• A/B-testing using Workers
• Fullstack Applications
• Serverless ETL pipelines
• Serverless global APIs
• Serverless image content management

Storage

• Egress-free object storage in multi-cloud setups
• On-demand Object Storage Data Migration
• Event notifications for storage