Customer Awards 2025
Cloudflare Customer Awards
Congratulations to our 2025 Customer Award Winners!
Our 2025 Customer Award Winners were announced at Connect Las Vegas on the mainstage.
Award Categories
Honoring customers across six categories
The Cloudflare Customer Awards identifies and highlights achievements across six main categories. Nominees may submit their projects for consideration in up to two categories. Up to three winners will be selected in each category.
Cloudflare Visionary
Cloudflare visionary nominees achieve transformational results using a full platform of Cloudflare products and solutions. Achievements extend to efforts demonstrating simplification, greater visibility, greater security, and other gains made through consolidation. Quantitative impacts are suggested.
Cloudflare Connect
Cloudflare connect nominees modernize their organizations by simplifying network architecture to boost resilience, security, and performance. Achievements include connecting customers, developers, teams, and AI models to applications and workloads through Cloudflare’s global network, driving greater agility, scalability, and efficiency. Quantifiable outcomes are encouraged.
Cloudflare Protect
Cloudflare protect nominees secure their organizations with Cloudflare’s unified security solutions, defending users, applications, and networks from attacks, restoring visibility and control, minimizing risk, reducing operational overhead, and helping meet global data protection and compliance requirements.
Cloudflare Build
Cloudflare build nominees use the Cloudflare Developer Platform to build, deploy, and deliver trusted applications with cloud-native services, achieving faster time to market and reliable, high-quality user experiences across compute, storage, and full-stack tools like image optimization and video streaming.
Cloudflare Impact
Cloudflare impact nominees use Cloudflare products to drive positive change in their communities by improving Internet accessibility, advancing privacy protections, and contributing to a safer, more reliable, and more inclusive Internet. Stories of impact and measurable success are welcome.
Cloudflare Luminary
An outstanding leader in the region, from AMER, APJC, EMEA, who is a guiding light for success, inspiration and best practices for other customers.
Visionary Award Winner
VSCO
Chris Haire • VSCO, a community-driven creative platform for photographers and videographers with the mission to “nurture creativity so you can make it.”
Successfully modernized its platform by consolidating its legacy multi-cloud infrastructure on the Cloudflare connectivity cloud. What sets VSCO apart to earn the 2025 Cloudflare Visionary Award is their holistic adoption of Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud, that combined storage, CDN, compute, and AI capabilities, allowing vendor consolidation and reducing total cost of ownership, while enabling rapid innovation in AI-assisted creative workflows.
By migrating 2.3 petabytes of images to R2, they eliminated millions in egress fees and simplified their complex image processing with Cloudflare Images. This move, along with refactoring APIs with Workers for a 6x latency improvement, enabled the launch of VSCO Canvas, a new AI-powered product built on Workers AI for real-time creative collaboration.
Build Award Winner
Shopify
Justine Reid • Shopify is the all-in-one commerce platform that millions of entrepreneurs trust for speed, customization, reliability, security, and the best possible customer experiences.
By building on Cloudflare and utilizing the Cloudflare connectivity cloud to power millions of businesses across 175+ countries, they earned the 2025 Cloudflare Build Award. By leaning on Cloudflare WAF, bot management and DDoS protection, Shopify protects their merchants and delivers a seamless digital experience. With lightning-fast checkouts powered by Cloudflare Workers, they give merchants the speed and security they need to succeed worldwide.
Connect award Winner
Arizona State University
Nathan Wilken • Cloudflare is honored to recognize Arizona State University (ASU) with the Cloudflare Connect Award.
In late 2023, Cloudflare partnered with Arizona State University (ASU) to modernize network and security posture, transforming the institutional model internationally. By adopting a software-defined networking strategy, ASU enhanced global flexibility, scalability, and efficiency, preventing data from being backhauled. This modernization reduced the load on the security stack and improved the end-user experience for students and faculty.
impact award Winner
New York City Housing Authority
Michael Deutsch • The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) is committed to providing equitable access to affordable housing at scale, serving millions of residents across the city.
As part of this mission, NYCHA digitized its Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher application process for the first time in 15 years, building a platform capable of handling up to one million users per hour. Using Cloudflare Waiting Room, Web Application Firewall (WAF), and DDoS protection, their lean team was able to provide a fast and secure experience, with over 600,000 applicants completing the process in under ten minutes, and scaled to serve over a million users in a single week. The NYCHA received the Cloudflare Impact Award for showcasing what’s possible when innovation, mission-driven focus, and technology come together to deliver meaningful impact at scale.
Impact award Winner
Republic of Estonia Information System Authority
Hendrik Raid, Simon Berner, Reiko Lill • The first country to move its IT infrastructure into the cloud, the Republic of Estonia Information System Authority is recognized for their pioneering role in securing a fully digital society.
As the cybersecurity arm of the Republic of Estonia, their commitment to protecting a nation's digital economy from evolving cyber threats is exceptional. In response to a surge in cyber threats back in 2021, Republic of Estonia Information System Authority implemented Cloudflare's application security solutions, including DDoS protection, Bot Management, and Rate Limiting. This move successfully blocked 384 million threats in a 30-day period and delivered a 75% reduction in bandwidth costs.
The project, including the use of the Cloudflare Data Localization Suite, not only strengthened Estonia's digital infrastructure but also ensured strict compliance with EU data privacy requirements. CERT Estonia's innovative use of Cloudflare's Data Localization Suite, including being the first customer to use Spectrum static IPs for EU data processing, showcases their leadership in data privacy and regulatory compliance. Their proactive approach to adopting emerging security standards, like post-quantum cryptography, further solidifies their position at the forefront of national cybersecurity.
Protect award Winner
Delivery Hero
Rajesh Kanuri • Delivery Hero, the world's leading local delivery platform operating in over 70 countries, earned the 2025 Cloudflare Protect Award as a leader in successfully protecting their billions of customers and infrastructure by consolidating a wide array of security, performance, and developer functions onto a single Cloudflare platform.
As an early adopter of Cloudflare One's Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) to secure internal applications, replacing an inefficient VPN solution, Delivery Hero has scaled to protect over 40,000 employees accessing all internal applications. Now utilizing Cloudflare for all new API development and the rapid deployment capabilities enabled by Cloudflare Workers highlight a deep integration of Cloudflare into their innovation pipeline, transforming security from a reactive burden into a foundational enabler for agile development. Their strategic consolidation on Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud helps Delivery Hero to manage complexity, improve security posture, enhance performance, and accelerate innovation across their vast global operations.
Luminary award Winner
CaixaBank
Ferran Serafini • Recognized with the Cloudflare Luminary Award, CaixaBank inspires large institutions globally, who are also navigating the complex and evolving IT landscape, by their successful integration of Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud into a unified security layer capable of supporting both current and future services.
As part of its long-term strategic roadmap, CaixaBank, Spain's second-largest lender which operates across multiple countries, chose Cloudflare as a key partner to unify its vast and complex IT infrastructure, delivering a single, integrated platform for secure and rapid delivery of financial services. This partnership has enabled the bank to accelerate development cycles, drive innovation, and reinforce its infrastructure, while also simplifying operations and significantly improving the customer experience. The project provides CaixaBank with a strategic and competitive advantage in the financial sector by enhancing agility and resilience across its international footprint.
Luminary award Winner
Squiz
John-Paul Syriatowicz, Jule Brettle • Squiz is recognized for the Cloudflare Luminary Award for their comprehensive and future-facing transformation while remaining deeply committed to simplicity and customer success.
As part of their modernization journey, Squiz integrated Cloudflare’s global CDN and edge computing technologies, including Workers and Workers KV, to ensure the rapid delivery of both static and dynamic content. The integration of Cloudflare’s Web Application Firewall, Bot Management, and DDoS Protection enabled Squiz to offer a managed, scalable defense system for its customers, shielding them from sophisticated web threats. The result was a robust, high-performance solution that supports customers across diverse industries—from government to higher education—while maintaining simplicity and scalability at its core.
Luminary award Winner
Roche/Genentech
Jignesh Joshi • Recipient of the Cloudflare Luminary Award, Roche/Genentech took a forward-thinking approach to leveraging cloud technologies for a resilient and high-performing digital environment.
To improve application performance, bolster cybersecurity defenses, and streamline access for employees and partners worldwide, Roche integrated Cloudflare's comprehensive suite of services, including CDN, WAF, DNS, and Zero Trust solutions, across their diverse global operations to enhance their digital infrastructure, security, and global reach. Roche’s commitment to innovation, and focus on security and compliance, at massive scale and efficiency, is a leading example for large, globally distributed enterprises.