Why CDN clients are migrating to Cloudflare in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

January 6, 2025 | 3 minute read
Shailendra Singh
Master Principal Cloud Architect
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Cloudflare is a well-known and reliable content delivery network (CDN). It improves the performance of the content delivery and page load times and provides other data security, availability, and connectivity benefits for your organization. Clients are migrating CDN to Cloudflare in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) for several compelling reasons, which revolve around performance improvements, cost savings, and enhanced security features.

Driving factors for the migration

The factors encouraging CDN customers to migrate to OCI include cost efficiency, performance benefits, enhanced security features, flexibility, and choice, as exhibited in the following features and benefits:

  • Elimination of egress fees: Cloudflare’s partnership with Oracle as a part of the Bandwidth Alliance, mutual customers can enjoy zero egress charges for data that moves out of OCI Object Storage. This lack of fees significantly decreases the cost of data transfer, a popular issue with cloud services, where egress fees are extremely expensive.
  • Competitive pricing: OCI already provides affordable pricing for networking, and with the Cloudflare model, users can cut their data transfer expenses significantly. This pricing structure prevents organizations from getting locked into high transfer rates by other cloud providers.
  • Global network optimization: Cloudflare operates a massive global network with many edge locations, which means less latency and quicker content delivery. With content fetched near the user, Cloudflare speeds up the page loading speed and improves the user experience.
  • Advanced caching capabilities: Cloudflare’s caching mechanisms and features like Argo Smart Routing optimize the delivery of content by dynamically selecting the best path for data, further enhancing performance.
  • Robust distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection: Cloudflare is famous for its powerful DDoS mitigation features, which can ward off large scale attacks that can knock out the service. This factor is vital for businesses who can’t afford downtime. 
  • Integrated web application firewall (WAF): Cloudflare provides a comprehensive WAF that safeguards applications from various vulnerabilities without requiring more hardware or software, simplifying security management.
  • Improved DNS management with DNS synchronization: The integration between OCI and Cloudflare facilitates efficient DNS management through public zone synchronization. This integration enhances DNS performance and reliability by resolving queries closer to users and providing redundancy.
  • Support for multicloud strategies: Oracle’s Cloudflare partnership supports multicloud deployments that enable businesses to tier workloads between clouds without worrying about high data transfer fees. This adaptability is desirable because enterprises seek to get the most out of their cloud investments.

How Cloudflare CDN works in OCI

Cloudflare's CDN integrates with OCI to enhance the performance, security, and accessibility of content stored in OCI services, particularly OCI Object Storage. Here’s how Cloudflare CDN edge works in OCI:

 

End users are connecting to OCI via Cloudflare CDN edge
Figure1: Cloudflare CDN in OCI

 

Conclusion

CDN client migration to Cloudflare in OCI comes from a combination of savings from no egress charges, enhanced performance from a global network, high level security, and better DNS management. As enterprises are seeking to become more efficient and secure in the cloud, Oracle’s partnership with Cloudflare puts them at the forefront of the market for the cloud. If you’re looking to find the right CDN, cloud storage, networking and security solutions to meet your needs, consider the Cloudflare in OCI. Sign up for the Free Tier of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and experience what works best for your organization.

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Shailendra Singh

Master Principal Cloud Architect

Shailendra Singh is a Cloud Architect where he is responsible to develop cloud strategy and deliver infrastructure solutions per customer's business needs in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. His goal is to ensure customer has the most capable and performant cloud platform in the market i.e. Oracle Cloud


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