2026-02-12_Cloudflare-全球整合雲端平台與發展前景分析
Cloudflare 全球整合雲端平台與發展前景分析
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癌大觀點
- 雖然 cloudflare 在軟體修正波裡從高點至今也回檔了 36%,但他有機會是在市場裡相對快回神的軟體/資安及 infra 的綜合體
- seat based 至 token based 的商業模式轉換尚待摸索誰是贏家,但 cloudflare 服務有意思的地方在於 " 流量突破 " 就已經會立刻使其受惠
- 舉例,過往是使用者送出十數個後端請求,來完成行程規劃。現在則是 AI 怒刷數百上千次,給出建議或執行。這過程由人類流量轉為機器流量使 request 爆開。AI 改變了人取用軟體的方式,多了層 agent layer,但底層的物理需求沒變,像是低延遲、安全性等,這些都是 cloudflare 架好收費站的地方
- "And I don't think every SaaS company is dead. But I do see just the rate at which entrepreneurs and developers are able to build new disruptive ways of taking on what have been legacy incumbents in a way that I've never seen before. And what I'm proud of is a lot of them are building that on top of Cloudflare.
- I think that on the other side of the equation, you've got a bunch of the agents of the world that are interacting with the Internet, and they're interacting with it at a volume that we've just never seen before. And that's just driving more need for what are classically Cloudflare's services. So the fact that more than 20% of the Internet sits behind us means that the agents have to interact with us, which means we have a seat at the table in defining exactly what the rules and the rails and the guardrails of the future of agentic commerce is going to look like and be, and we are sitting in the middle of that.
- And so it's been amazing across our business. We've seen, obviously, an enormous amount of strength from our Cloudflare Workers platform, but our Zero Trust platform is getting more and more adoption because it's built from a sense of agentic AI from the beginning. Our standard application services platforms are getting more adoption because people need to be able to keep up with all this new traffic that's coming to the Internet.
- And as we're thinking about really, what's the future business model of the Internet going to be, I think Cloudflare sits in a position to help define that. And so that's been great."
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Cloudflare 全球整合雲端平台與發展前景分析
- Cloudflare 提供整合性的全球雲端平台,主要結構包含 Cloudflare One 旗下的零信任服務、網路服務與應用程式服務。
- 零信任服務涵蓋 ZTNA、安全 Web 閘道、雲端存取安全經紀商及遠端瀏覽器隔離等技術。
- 網路服務與應用程式服務則提供廣域網路即服務、防火牆即服務、L3/L4/L7 DDoS 防護、WAF、負載平衡及 CDN 等功能。
- 開發者平台提供 Workers、Pages、R2 儲存、Durable Objects 等工具,支撐全球網路的合規性與數據本地化需求。
癌大觀點
- 市場定位:軟體修正波回檔 36%,具備快速回神潛力,如:軟體、資安、Infra 綜合體。
- 商業模式:從 Seat-based 轉型 Token-based 尚待驗證,但流量突破即受惠。
- 流量紅利:AI Agent 數百倍於人類流量,Request 爆發帶動物理需求,如:低延遲、安全性。
- 未來展望:20% 網路流量經過 Cloudflare,具備定義 Agentic Commerce 規則與護欄之關鍵地位。
- 競爭優勢:Workers 與零信任平台原生符合 AI 需求,處於定義未來網路商模之優勢位置。
專有名詞
- Zero Trust (零信任):一種網路安全概念,核心原則為「永不信任,始終驗證」。無論發起存取請求的主體是否位於公司網路內部,都必須經過身分驗證、授權及持續驗證。
- WAF (Web Application Firewall):網站應用程式防火牆,專門用來過濾、監控和阻斷進入 Web 應用程式的惡意 HTTP/HTTPS 流量,防止 SQL 注入、跨站腳本 (XSS) 等攻擊。
- DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service):分散式阻斷服務攻擊,透過大量的網路流量淹沒目標伺服器或其周邊基礎設施,導致正常流量無法抵達預期目標。
- CDN (Content Delivery Network):內容傳遞網路,是指一組分布在不同地理位置的伺服器,透過將內容快取在靠近使用者的地方,來加速網頁內容的載入速度。
- Agentic AI (智能體 AI):指具備自主行動能力、能理解目標並執行複雜任務的 AI 系統 (Agent),而不僅僅是回答問題。
- Workers:Cloudflare 提供的邊緣運算服務,允許開發者在全球各地的邊緣節點上執行程式碼,以實現極低延遲的響應。
- R2:Cloudflare 提供的物件儲存服務,其特點是免收數據傳出費 (Egress Fees),與 Amazon S3 兼容。
- Token-based model (代幣計費模式):常見於 AI 模型的收費方式,根據處理的文字、代碼或數據單位 (Token) 數量來計費,而非傳統的按人頭 (Seat-based) 計費。
- Infra (Infrastructure):基礎設施,在雲端運算中指底層的伺服器、網路設備、資料中心等資源,是構建上層應用程式的基石。
- Seat-based model (席次計費模式):傳統軟體常見的授權模式,按使用人數或裝置數量收費,與按使用量 (Usage-based) 或 Token 數量的計費方式對比。
- Agent Layer (代理層):在 AI 應用架構中,介於模型與終端應用之間,負責協調 AI Agent 執行任務、調用工具或與外部系統互動的中介層。
- Request (請求):用戶端向伺服器發送的指令。在雲端服務中,Request 數量常作為計費標準或衡量服務負載的指標。
