San Francisco, California, United States
Cloudflare
Best known as a network and security company, Cloudflare also runs GPU inference at the edge through Workers AI - and has operated a Dubai point of presence since 2018, well before most AI-specific providers reached the region.
Where it sits in the stack
- User - Cloudflare does not work at this layer
- Application - Cloudflare does not work at this layer
- Model - Cloudflare does not work at this layer
- InferenceRunning the model, live - Cloudflare works at this layer
- Compute - Cloudflare does not work at this layer
- GPU - Cloudflare does not work at this layer
- Data Centre - Cloudflare does not work at this layer
- Power & NetworkElectricity and connectivity - Cloudflare works at this layer
Has a site in the UAE
Cloudflare has operated a point of presence in Dubai since 2018, one of its Middle East locations alongside Riyadh, Doha, Kuwait City and Muscat.
- Middle East - Dubai, Riyadh, Doha, Kuwait City, Muscat and more
What it offers
Workers AI
Serverless GPU inference for open models, run across Cloudflare's edge locations.
Global Network
Cloudflare's edge network across 120+ countries, including a Dubai point of presence.
What it can do
- Edge inference close to the end user, not a single central region
- One of the broadest network footprints of any provider in this catalog
- Security and CDN products layered on the same network
What its 2 layers mean
- Inference
The moment a trained model is actually used to produce an answer, in about the time it takes to read this sentence. Training a model happens once; inference happens every single time someone uses it.
- Power & Network
Everything above this needs two things nobody thinks about until they run out: electricity to run and cool the machines, and network links fast enough to move data between them.
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