TrustRadius Insights for Cloudflare are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
DNS Management: Users have consistently found Cloudflare's DNS management to be extremely user-friendly, describing it as effortless to set up and quick to propagate across their networks. This feature has significantly streamlined their processes and increased operational efficiency.
Web Application Firewall: Many reviewers have praised the effectiveness of Cloudflare's Web Application Firewall in safeguarding their websites against common web attacks. They appreciate the proactive protection it offers, including active defense mechanisms that enhance overall security measures.
Integration with AI Frameworks: Customers highly value Cloudflare's integration with popular AI frameworks and APIs for simplifying AI development tasks. By facilitating the creation of fast, private, and scalable AI applications in the cloud, this feature has proven instrumental in driving innovation and streamlining workflows.
Today, my organization mainly uses Cloudflare's WAF, with the benefits of the Enterprise plan. We actually use almost the entire product portfolio, such as DNS, Pages, Workers, SSL and custom certificates, as well as Security and Rules. We also use the free plan domains for sites with few traffic or less relevance, but the features available in the free plan are exceptional and very helpful.
Hoje na minha organização utilizamos principalmente o WAF da Cloudflare, com os benefícios do plano Enterprise. Utilizamos na verdade quase todo o portfólio de produtos, como DNS, Pages, Workers, SSL e certificados personalizados, a parte de Security e Rules. Os domínios em plano free também são utilizados, para aqueles sites com poucos acessos ou menos relevantes, porém as funcionalidades disponibilizadas no plano free são excepcionais e ajudam muito.
Pros
Automated DDoS Protection
WAF
Workers
SSL
Pages
Rules
Proteção automatizada para DDoS
Cons
Rules Distribution, difficult to find where the rules are that were previously grouped in Pages Rules
Cloudflare Pages monitoring, issues regarding the number of deployments performed and other features that are limited by plan, do not have the metrics that should be included with the workers.
Logic of rules, sometimes they change, and a rule that previously worked with * or contains, no longer works. Or the logic AND, OR.
Distribuição das Rules, difícil encontrar onde estão as regras que antes eram no Pages Rules agrupadas
Monitoramento do Cloudflare Pages, questões de quantidade de deploys efetuados e outras funcionalidades que são limitadas por plano, não possuem as métricas que deveriam estar junto com o workers.
Lógica das regras, as vezes acontece de mudarem, e uma regra que antes funcionava com * ou contém, passa a não funcionar. Ou a lógica AND , OR.
Likelihood to Recommend
In my opinion, Cloudflare is completely appropriate, and in terms of security and performance, it is currently at the top. As for WAF, there are no comparisons. Some improvements that have been added in recent months have been sensational. The analytics, where you can check events for the entire account, are the only things that leave something to be desired. It is more confusing to keep looking for the option to create a rule that was previously at hand.
No meu ponto de vista a Cloudflare é totalmente apropriada, visando segurança e performance hoje ela está no topo. Questão de WAF sem comparações, algumas melhorias que foram adicionadas nos últimos meses foram sensacionais, o analytics onde é possível verificar eventos da conta inteira, só a divisão da Page Rules que deixou a desejar, é mais confuso ficar procurando onde está a opção para criar uma regra que antes estava na mão.
This review was originally written in Portuguese and has been translated into English using a third-party translation tool. While we strive for accuracy, some nuances or meanings may not be perfectly captured.
VU
Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)
We use Cloudflare to only manage our DNS records. This includes DNS records related to email, websites, etc.
Pros
You can add notes to DNS records for documentation
You can add multiple people to your console to manage DNS records
You can always buy other Cloudflare products to gain visibility into the usage of your DNS records and add security around your DNS records
Cloudflare does a good job against DDOS attacks
Cons
I wish there was a visibility feature for free that would just let you know the last time a DNS record was last used.
Likelihood to Recommend
As we simply use Cloudflare as our DNS provider and it's free, Cloudflare has been great for that. I have heard nothing but good things about Cloudflare in general, so I would recommend looking at their products. Currently, we are exploring some of their other products.
Cloudflare is an invaluable product in our company which we recommend to all our clients when we onboard them unless they already use it. We make use of a variety of the services it offers, but mostly depend on the DNS, WAF and CDN capabilities. Cloudflare helps the devops team daily to analyze traffic incoming to the many sites we manage and host; to prevent DDOS attacks; to implement robust security mechanisms with the WAF and many other rules it provides; and to provide fast responses to the frontend site users through cached assets in the CDN.
Pros
DNS
WAF
Security
Performance
DDOS prevention
Traffic analysis
CDN
Traffic routing
Likelihood to Recommend
Our devops team uses Cloudflare for many purposes to help manage our clients websites and products. We make extensive use of the DNS product to manage a lot of our clients' DNS records. The DDOS prevention mechanisms have stopped many attacks going to our high profile customers and we were able to add our own custom rules to prevent other issues caused by bots. The CDN feature is caching successfully all the HTML and assets requests to our clients' websites and prevents majority of the requests from ever reaching the backend servers.
VU
Verified User
Employee in Information Technology (51-200 employees)
Helps us cover attacks placed on externally exposed web apps. And provides metrics on malicious behavior that has taken place. If any of it was prevented, as well as the type of attacks there we discovered and seen. It's also has provided an increase in pages that are cached and loaded much quicker for end users. So there is a performance benefit, as well as a security benefit.
Pros
Security, great use of a WAF to protect web applications
CDN capabilities, to be able to cache pages for quick loading times on the user end
DNS capabilities, so you can host your domain record entries.
Cons
AI & bot detection and usage, where it can detect a human vs. bot vs. AI usage.
DLP capabilities, where sensitive data can be prevented, and metrics built on what category of data was seen.
Likelihood to Recommend
I have had nothing but good experiences with Cloudflare. I also like that they offer domain name services for at cost prices. Security features all work well and Cloudflare seems to always be innovating new features and capabilities. They are also open to allowing you to beta test new features to provide feedback and recommendations to their roadmaps for various items.
VU
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)
We use Cloudflare for DNS, security, performance improvements, and load balancing for most of the web applications that our organization hosts for public use. It is the first line of defense for web and network security for services that are open to the entire internet, so it is an important piece of our overall security puzzle and tackles the bulk of the load regarding requests placed on our self-hosted resources.
We use multiple Cloudflare products including DNS, WAF, Advanced Analytics, and more. My primary need is for the WAF to maintain security as well as PageShield for our security and PCI compliance. Cloudflare's WAF provides great managed rulesets which cover most attack vectors, but also has auto-rule creating whenever it detects suspicious activity.
Pros
Web Application Firewall
PageShield
Advanced analytics
Cons
Add .ca domain support to Cloudflare registrar
Interface has a lot of tabs, and menu items. It can be difficult to locate things if you are not already familiar with the console.
Likelihood to Recommend
I would strongly recommend Cloudflare to my peers if they have public facing applications or API's as Cloudflare's Web Application Firewall is one of the best. For peers who have PCI DSS obligations, PageShield has helped us to maintain compliance for our public facing websites. Overall, it is a great product for security.
VU
Verified User
Director in Information Technology (51-200 employees)
The Global cloud services offered from Cloudflare are an enticing set of tools which offer a range of solutions that we may benefit from to improve our website performance, security and reliability.
For Optum I can see potential benefitting factors:
Content Delivery Network (CDN) DDoS Protection Web App Firewall (WAF)
Pros
DNS Management
Zero Trust Security (Cloudflare Access and Gateway)
Load Balancing
DDoS Protection
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Argo Smart Routing
SSL/TLS Encryption
Email Security
Cons
Load Balancing
Email Security
Smart Routing
Likelihood to Recommend
DDoS protection is key for any business operations when connected to the internet, which we all are. It absorbs malicious traffic through Cloudflare's network before it impacts the company servers.
This in conjunction with Zero Trust Security is hugely beneficial for companies like ours which hold a serious amount of personal HIIPA data.
VU
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)
Thanks to generous Cloudflare offer for Non-profits we are able to serve our site to the internet without any issues, without Cloudflare it would be impossible to do it with our limited budget Cloudflare easily integrates with our infrastructure and thanks to that it helps us save valuable time and resources
Pros
Pricing for NGO
Ease of use
Good customer support
Cons
Custom enterprise pricing for ngo
Likelihood to Recommend
For pretty much anyone that wants to put up a site on the internet :)
VU
Verified User
Employee in Information Technology (11-50 employees)
In our organization, we enrolled in Enterprise plan for protecting our websites and domain DNS records. SSL/TLS service, DNS records service, Security service are the most frequency to use by us. As we are using Enterprise plan, we made multiple custom rules in WAF to protect our websites which includes JS Challenge and bot management.
Pros
JS Challenege rule in WAF
bot management rule in WAF
DNS records can be effective very quickly
Cons
The service fee of bot management can be cheaper.
API shield service need to be improved.
Speed observatory service is a useful function.
Likelihood to Recommend
Below four services are useful in our daily operation. They are JS Challenege rule in WAF, bot management rule in WAF, DNS records and Speed observatory service. If the price of bots management service can be cheaper, it will be the perfect choice to use Cloudflare. That's why I recommend Cloudflare to my colleague and friends.
