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Cloudflare offers various services beyond traditional Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), such as Load Balancing and Serverless Applications deployment. Their Load Balancing service supports weighting, latency-based routing, and health checks, while remaining independent of public cloud providers. Argo Tunnel simplifies multi-cloud networking by establishing outbound tunnels from virtual machines to Cloudflare's network, allowing seamless addition or removal of machines in new locations without relying on any single cloud provider. Access control can be applied using identity providers like Okta or Active Directory, and SSH access management is also possible. Cloudflare's system design ensures reliability by functioning independently across multiple data centers and utilizing anycast for seamless traffic redirection during network failures. The company aims to build a more reliable and cost-effective Internet through smarter networks that can handle the complexities of multi-cloud environments.

Company
Cloudflare

Date published
June 2, 2019

Author(s)
Zack Bloom

Word count
938

Hacker News points
None found.

Language
English


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