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Executive decision brief | Graph database and AI infrastructure software

Three reasons Neo4j and Cloudflare should talk.

Point of view

Create a simpler global delivery and security plane across application, authentication, origin, and SaaS workflows.

Why Cloudflare?
Why now?

Cloudflare already fronts neo4j.com. Fivefold cloud growth, a $100M GenAI commitment, and the GraphAware acquisition are expanding both traffic and integration surface.

DNS / HTTP recon

Cloudflare fronts the root while CloudFront appears in root headers and the www, auth, assets, and media CNAMEs.

Official company source

A current Neo4j Aura role states the service operates more than 800 Kubernetes clusters across multiple cloud providers.

CSP / page inspection

auth.neo4j.com uses CloudFront, login.neo4j.com uses Auth0, and the public page loads console.neo4j.io; private API topology was...

Three highest-impact use cases

What to prove together

Prioritized by business impact and strength of public evidence.

01 Business outcome

Remove duplicate CDN layers

Cloudflare CDN + Tiered Cache + Cache Reserve + Argo Smart Routing What Cloudflare does

Serve eligible web and asset traffic directly through the Cloudflare platform, preserving AWS origins while reducing cache layering.

Bounded pilot

Proxy one low-risk hostname or route with the current origin preserved for rollback.

Measure

p95 latency, cache hit ratio, origin offload, blocked attacks, operating cost.

02 Business outcome

Create one ingress layer for Aura Kubernetes

Load Balancing + WAF + DDoS Protection + Cloudflare Tunnel What Cloudflare does

Use one global policy and traffic layer ahead of multicloud clusters to simplify ingress, protect origins, and standardize failover.

Bounded pilot

Place one non-critical service or cluster ingress behind the common policy layer.

Measure

Ingress latency, failover time, blocked requests, load balancers retired, SRE hours.

03 Business outcome

Extend edge controls to auth and console APIs

API Shield + Bot Management + DDoS Protection + Rate Limiting What Cloudflare does

Inventory and protect authentication and console-facing APIs at the edge with schema, mTLS, abuse, and rate controls suited to a global developer platform.

Bounded pilot

Discover one bounded API or agent workflow, then enforce schema, identity, and rate policy.

Measure

Discovered endpoints, blocked abuse, policy coverage, origin load, p95 latency.

Discover
Prove
Scale
01
30-day DiscoverMap Cloudflare and CloudFront hostnames, cache behavior, AWS ALB origins, auth and console flows, and current edge policies
02
60-day ProveMove one assets or media hostname from layered CloudFront delivery to direct Cloudflare delivery and test API controls on a non-critical endpoint
03
Scale by evidenceRetire validated CDN overlap, protect selected auth or console APIs, pilot private origin connectivity, and start one AI Gateway governance test
Compact value model
BaselineCurrent vendor run-rate + egress/compute + operating hours.
ValueRetired overlap + avoided load/incidents + hours returned.
DecisionAnnualized pilot delta - Cloudflare run-rate - one-time migration cost.
Cloudflare
overview
ProtectWAF, DDoS, bot, API and email security
AccelerateCDN, DNS, load balancing and smart routing
ConnectZero Trust, private access and secure networking
BuildWorkers, R2, AI and developer services