Cloudflare Edge
Cloudflare as your front edge layer
Every CycleTech deployment sits behind Cloudflare — protecting and accelerating your apps, APIs, AI services, and Kubernetes clusters before traffic ever reaches an origin.
Request flow
From user to origin, secured at every hop
Cloudflare terminates and inspects traffic at the edge, then routes only clean, authorized requests to your origins via secure tunnels.
Browser, mobile, API consumer
Cloudflare Edge Layer
global · 300+ PoPsAuthoritative DNS, fast global resolution
Managed + custom rules, OWASP coverage
Challenge & block malicious automation
Tiered caching of static assets
Protect /api and /auth endpoints
Edge logic, auth checks, routing
Access policies for /admin & internal
Static / SSR frontend
Gateway → microservices
AI workers, RAG, vector DB
Origin cluster behind tunnel
Capabilities
The full edge toolkit
Cloudflare DNS
Fast, authoritative DNS with DNSSEC and global anycast resolution.
Cloudflare Pages
Host static and SSR frontends at the edge with instant rollbacks.
Cloudflare Workers
Run edge logic — auth checks, redirects, A/B routing, API shaping.
WAF
Managed + custom rulesets with OWASP core protection.
CDN
Tiered caching and smart routing for low-latency delivery.
Zero Trust
Identity-aware access policies for /admin and internal tools.
API Protection
Schema validation, rate limiting, and mTLS to origins.
Edge Routing
Route traffic to Pages, Workers, or origin clusters by rule.
Caching
Cache rules, purge APIs, and stale-while-revalidate strategies.
Bot Protection
Detect and challenge malicious automation and scraping.