CloudFlare

Cloudflare

Composite Score

8.8 /10

CX Score

9.2 /10

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What is Cloudflare?

Cloudflare is a global network designed to make everything you connect to the Internet secure, private, fast, and reliable. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare have all traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with each new site added. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks.

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Awards & Recognition

Cloudflare won the following awards in the Secure Access Service Edge category

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2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

Latest Award, 2024

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact
Contract Negotiation
Conflict Resolution

Latest Award, 2024

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2024

2 Top Rated Capabilities

3 Top Rated Features

2024

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023

Service Experience
Contract Negotiation

2023

2 Top Rated Capabilities

5 Top Rated Features

2023

Cloudflare Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

92 Likeliness to Recommend

1
Since last award

97 Plan to Renew

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Since last award

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+95 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Cloudflare?

3% Negative

4% Neutral

93% Positive

Pros

Trustworthy
Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Effective Service

Feature Ratings

Average 80

Enablement for Security Teams

Network Sandboxes

Firewall as a Service (FWaaS)

Web Application and API Protection (WAAP)

Zero Trust

Secure Web Gateway (SWG)

Remote Browser Isolation (RBI)

SD-WAN

Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)

Viable Alternative VS Traditional MPLS

Data Analytics / BI / AI

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 79

Business Value Created

Breadth of Features

Usability and Intuitiveness

Quality of Features

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Customization

Vendor Support

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Cloudflare Reviews

Sandeep P.

Role: Consultant
Industry: Consulting
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2023

Cloudflare is must for all websites

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Cloudflare from other similar products?

It manages the internet present starting with DNS routing as well as primary cloud security. Great dashboards to work with the team

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

This product having fast CDN and secure server. It can easily integrate with website

What do you dislike most about this product?

Interface can be sometime confusing for a new user. Domain name registration.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Improve the learning tutorial for new users and improve the UI.

Pros

Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Trustworthy
Effective Service

Shivam S.

Role: Consultant
Industry: Consulting
Involvement: Initial Implementation

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2023

Cloudflare provides excellent DNS hosting manageme

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Cloudflare from other similar products?

Cloudflare is a large network of servers to improve the security, performance, and reliability of anything connected to the internet

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It supports global network designed to make everything to connect with the internet and secure the connection to make it private, fast and reliable.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Domain name registration. Be more detailed for explaining the features. Some time it will block the traffic as well

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Low cost and user friendly

Pros

Helps Innovate
Performance Enhancing
Trustworthy
Efficient Service

Parth P.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Engineering
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2023

Formation for cloud

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Cloudflare from other similar products?

Cloud formation provides template to submit the task with parameters. That could be YMl or any Json forma.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

CFT is very useful when need to run the job in EMR.

What do you dislike most about this product?

YML File configuration is not useful case in Cloud formation.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Everybody needs to use Cloud formation to keep similar kind of job dynamically configured.

Pros

Appreciates Incumbent Status
Continually Improving Product
Trustworthy
Efficient Service

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Awards & Recognition

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

Cloudflare Ratings

92 Likeliness to Recommend

1 Since last award

97 Plan to Renew

1 Since last award

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+95 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Cloudflare?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Enablement for Security Teams Enablement for Security to know the layers of protection deployed and not just rely on the carrier to only provide the connection.

Network Sandboxes Sandboxes are used to safely execute suspicious code without risking harm to the host device or network.

Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) Next-generation firewall capabilities that include web filtering, advanced threat protection, intrusion prevention system, and Domain Name System security.

Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) Provides protective capabilities that leverage effective web request inspection prior to reaching the API such as Next-Gen WAF, RASP, DDoS etc.

Zero Trust Provides features that enable a zero trust architecture, including device authentication and user contextual risk based authentication.

Secure Web Gateway (SWG) Protects corporate users and networks from web-based malware, controls employee behavior on the Internet, and helps prevent data loss.

Remote Browser Isolation (RBI) Separate your users' web browsing activity from the local network and its infrastructure, preventing browser-based attacks on the network.

SD-WAN Separates the data and control plane from its hardware, virtualizing the network.

Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) Intermediary between an organization's users and one or more cloud services, allowing the enforcement of certain types of security policies in the cloud.

Viable Alternative VS Traditional MPLS Organizations may want to migrate away from traditional MPLS and leverage a platform to provision convergence and flexibility regarding deployment of security.

Data Analytics / BI / AI Integration of capability to mine data from incoming sources (SIEM, logs, vulnerability tools, threat databases, etc) in real-time and apply rules.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

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Cloudflare Reviews

Sandeep P.

Cloudflare is must for all websites

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Shivam S.

Cloudflare provides excellent DNS hosting manageme

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Parth P.

Formation for cloud

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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