Today, we’re excited to introduce Cloudflare@OCI, a strategic partnership between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Cloudflare designed to help organizations accelerate and secure modern applications and AI workloads at scale.
As businesses evolve, expectations have changed. Users now demand fast, dependable digital experiences delivered seamlessly across the globe, while cyber threats are increasing in both scale and complexity. Meanwhile, application architectures are becoming more distributed, spanning both cloud and on premises.
Cloudflare@OCI brings together OCI’s high-performance cloud and Cloudflare’s global edge network to deliver a unified solution that improves performance, strengthens security, and simplifies the purchase and deployment of edge services. It also helps organizations implement the infrastructure required to support secure, high-performance, production-ready AI applications.
Problem we are solving
Modern cloud environments weren’t designed to be simple. They are designed for flexibility. That flexibility enables organizations to choose the right services and adapt as needs evolve. Still, over time, it can create a patchwork of tools that are difficult to operate and manage.
Legacy clouds weren’t built to give customers flexibility. Modern clouds, like OCI, are giving flexibility and control back to customers, combining cloud infrastructure services under one roof. Yet this can still mean trading vendor sprawl for generic tooling and opaque pricing, where security costs rise with attack volume rather than legitimate usage.
With Cloudflare@OCI, organizations get the best of both worlds: OCI’s cloud infrastructure paired with Cloudflare’s purpose-built security and performance platform. Cloudflare spans more than 330 cities worldwide, accelerating and protecting applications wherever they run. This brings consistent security policies, defense in depth, and cost predictability by design, without the complexity of managing multiple point solutions. The integration layers Cloudflare’s WAF, DDoS protection, API security, and global CDN on top of OCI workloads, simplifying operations while maintaining the flexibility customers need across any environment.
AI workloads intensify these challenges. They require production-ready infrastructure that delivers security, privacy, performance, and resiliency across distributed environments. Without a consistent approach to edge traffic management and protection, organizations face performance bottlenecks, increased exposure to threats, and limited visibility. As environments grow more distributed, integrated, policy-driven edge security and performance become essential. Cloudflare@OCI addresses these challenges with an integrated approach to edge services, combining global performance, robust security, and simplified operations into a single, Oracle-led experience.
Customers can access Cloudflare’s edge capabilities, including CDN, WAF, DDoS protection, and API security, directly through OCI, with four bundles aligned to different security and performance needs:
- Cloudflare Business Services: Essential edge security and performance, including CDN, DDoS protection, WAF, and basic rate limiting. It delivers a cost-effective foundation to protect and accelerate internet-facing applications.
- Cloudflare Enterprise Entry Services: Enterprise grade support and performance features including advanced certificate management, load balancing, and logging. It enables organizations to deliver secure, compliant, and reliable application experiences at scale.
- Cloudflare Enterprise Essential Service: Advanced performance and security, including optimized routing, advanced DDoS protection, and accelerated DNS. It enables organizations to scale securely while ensuring fast, resilient, and reliable user experiences globally.
- Cloudflare Enterprise Advanced Services: Top level of security with the addition of advanced Bot Management and Rate Limiting plus content scanning and client-side security. It enables enterprises to protect, optimize, and control mission-critical applications at global scale
These services leverage Cloudflare’s global network to stop threats at the edge while improving application performance before traffic reaches your infrastructure.
OCI’s AI infrastructure complements this by supporting machine learning, generative AI, and AI-enabled applications through dedicated data platforms that can be deployed wherever needed. This enables organizations to run AI workloads closer to their data, users, and regulatory boundaries, without sacrificing performance or control. Built on OCI’s distributed cloud, customers can develop and deploy high-performance AI systems using consistent infrastructure across regions, clouds, and on-premises environments.
Cloudflare services are available directly in the OCI console, aligning with existing procurement and billing models to reduce vendor fragmentation and simplify operations.
This builds on Oracle and Cloudflare’s existing collaboration through the Bandwidth Alliance, a group of cloud and networking providers committed to discounting or waiving data transfer fees for shared customers. Oracle joined the Alliance to help mutual customers reduce unnecessary egress costs between Cloudflare and OCI, including zero egress for data sourced from OCI Object Storage starting in North America. For customers adopting Cloudflare@OCI, that reinforces a shared focus on performance, multicloud choice, and more predictable economics across distributed environments.
Cloudflare@OCI is designed for real-world enterprise environments, enabling organizations to route, manage, and secure traffic across OCI, other clouds, and on-premises systems using consistent, policy-driven controls.
What customers can expect:
- Streamlined Operations & Predictable Costs: Consolidate edge services into a single platform to help reduce complexity and improve cost predictability.
- Accelerate public-facing applications and AI inference: Help reduce latency worldwide with industry-leading performance.
- Strengthen AI security: Shield workloads with DDoS protection, WAF, bot mitigation, and API Shield.
- Enable hybrid and multi-cloud architectures: Securely connect and orchestrate traffic across hybrid and multi-cloud environments with unified control.
- Protect APIs: Safeguard the entire vendor ecosystem with rate limiting, threat intelligence, and data protection.
- Address compliance across digital environments: Address enterprise compliance requirements as a globally distributed, security-first platform with Cloudflare.
“The partnership between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Cloudflare creates a strong foundation for the global web hosting solutions Newfold Digital provides through leading brands like Bluehost and Network Solutions. Layering Cloudflare’s edge network optimizations over OCI’s highly flexible compute environment further strengthens our ability to deliver exceptional speed, robust security and unwavering reliability to millions of customers worldwide.”
Matthew Ho, Senior Vice President, Technology, Newfold Digital
How to get started
Our new partnership enables rapid deployment of edge security and performance capabilities without integrating multiple third-party solutions or managing separate procurement processes. Customers can work with their Oracle account team to select the right service bundles based on application needs and traffic patterns. Once provisioned, Cloudflare services can be configured through Cloudflare’s platform, with support from Cloudflare and billing through Oracle.
1. Step one, navigate to the OCI console
2. Step two, select Identity & Security to review available packages
3. Step three, choose a package to purchase
4. Step four, purchase and connect to Cloudflare
5. Step five, configure and deploy
Cloudflare@OCI simplifies how edge services are delivered, providing consistent performance and security for AI workloads across modern, distributed cloud environments. With a unified approach to infrastructure and edge services, organizations can build and scale production-ready AI systems with confidence.
Stay in touch with your Oracle account team for updates on upcoming webinars and training sessions.
For more information, please check out Cloudflare@Oracle.