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Cloudflare Documentation

Technical reference documentation for Cloudflare products, written by Integrity. Each page documents architecture, capabilities, configuration model, documented limits, plan availability, a deployment procedure, operational considerations and known caveats, with source links and a retrieval date. Pages cover WAF, DDoS Protection, Bot Management, CDN and Caching, DNS, Zero Trust Access, Zero Trust Gateway, Email Security, Turnstile and Workers. Cloudflare's own documentation is the authoritative source; figures and entitlements here carry the date on which they were retrieved and should be re-checked before a design or purchase decision depends on them.

These guides explain what each Cloudflare product does, how it works under the hood, which plans include it and how to deploy it. They are written for the people who evaluate and operate this technology: IT managers, security engineers and developers.

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DDoS Protection

Automatic mitigation of L3/4 and L7 denial-of-service attacks on traffic that passes through Cloudflare, without metering by attack size.

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Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Managed and custom firewall rules that block exploits, injections and abusive traffic before they reach your applications.

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Bot Management

Bot scores and verified-bot signals for proxied HTTP requests, which WAF and rate limiting rules use to act on automated traffic.

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CDN & Caching

Edge caching in 300+ cities, with Cache Rules, Tiered Cache and purge by file, tag, hostname or prefix.

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DNS

Authoritative DNS on Cloudflare's anycast network, with DNSSEC, CNAME flattening and per-record proxy control.

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Zero Trust Access (ZTNA)

Identity-aware access to internal applications, with each request checked against identity, device and context policies instead of network location.

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Zero Trust Gateway (SWG)

Secure Web Gateway that applies DNS, network and HTTP policies to traffic from enrolled devices, locations and networks.

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Email Security

Inbound email filtering for phishing, malware and business email compromise, in API or inline (MX) mode alongside your mail platform.

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Turnstile

A CAPTCHA alternative that runs checks in the browser, without image or text puzzles, and issues a token your backend validates.

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Workers

Serverless code running in 300+ cities, with storage, databases and AI inference built into the platform.

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Complete Cloudflare documentation

5753 pages mirrored from the Cloudflare Developer Docs (CC BY 4.0). English is complete; Czech and Russian are published section by section, starting with WAF.

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