Cloudflare's 340 Tbps platform: WAFs no longer sell alone, bundling is the norm
shashib · x · 2026-10-25
After meeting happy enterprise customers at Cloudflare Connect, the author analyzes how WAFs are now sold as one module of WAAP platforms, with bot management and API security bundled into the same contract.
- Cloudflare cites network capacity above 340 Tbps and DDoS mitigation in under 3 seconds
- Key takeaway: scoping the purchase as 'a firewall' misses most of what the contract covers
- Where the WAF sits in the traffic path determines who tunes the rules and what goes down with it
A practical market-structure read for teams buying security infrastructure.
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