Cloudflare TCO is quite reasonable yet it's solution is impressive
September 07, 2023

Cloudflare TCO is quite reasonable yet it's solution is impressive

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review

Overall Satisfaction with Cloudflare

I am working as solutions architect for system integrator company and had successfully offer, deploy and manage cloudflare solutions to some of our customers.
These are some of business problems that has been addressed by using cloudflare product:
1. Content Delivery
2. Web Security Threat

3. Website Performance


The scope of these use case are :
1. CDN
2. WAF & Anti DDoS
3. Web Optimization





  • DDoS Protection, unmetered Mitigation of DDoS Attacks whether it is L3 or L7 DDOS
  • Web Application Firewall (WAF), able to mitigate common web attack mainly for OWASP top 10 attack.
  • Zero Trust Security, easy to use and reliable ZTNA platform
  • missing IDS/IPS functionality for user internet protection
  • missing Next gen Firewall capability on Magic Firewall
  • missing Identity aware endpoint SWG proxy, currently based on IP address
  • reduce server load
  • saving egress charge for cloud
  • reduce TCO and save manpower compare to point security solution
Cloudflare has TCO is more reasonable. The pricing is quite competitive
The onboarding process is quite smooth and quick so enable our customer to be successful with Cloudflare.
We can immediately begin realizing its value once we deploy it
Based on my past experience, Cloudflare support need a room for improvement, They need to more listen to customer problem and reproduce their pain point. Couple of times contacting their support, they are unable to quickly respond to the customer problem and long time to resolve.

Do you think Cloudflare delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Cloudflare's feature set?

Yes

Did Cloudflare live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Cloudflare go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Cloudflare again?

Yes

Cloudflare is well suite for application side protection, such as anti DDoS, WAF, CDN, and identity aware Proxy for ZTNA.
even though CF has RBI offering in its SWG, it less appropriate for user internet access protection as it is missing IPS and NGFW functionality.