Cloud Architecture

Edge API Gateway with Cloudflare Workers

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Edge API Gateway architecture showing clients passing through Cloudflare Edge Workers for auth and rate limits before routing to Regional VPCs.
Edge API Gateway architecture showing clients passing through Cloudflare Edge Workers for auth and rate limits before routing to Regional VPCs.
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What it shows

  • Edge nodes validate JWTs and decrypt auth headers in under 15ms globally.
  • Geo-routing forwards traffic directly to the closest healthy origin VPC.
  • Edge rate limiting blocks DDoS bursts before they reach application servers.

The takeaway

Offload authentication, rate-limiting, and geo-routing to the edge to insulate your core origin VPC.

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