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As Cloudflare's first Authorised Service Delivery Partner in EMEA , one of its most certified and a Powered+ partner, CDS give you the confidence to invest in Cloudflare via access to the proven, expert support needed to do so.

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Confidence in Cloudflare

At CDS, we believe the successful organisations of the future will be enabled and protected by Cloudflare and the products and services of the future will be built on and powered by Cloudflare.

We were early adopters, recognising its value through its cloud-native architecture and unmatched network scale. Our commitment is absolute: For the challenges Cloudflare solves, we work exclusively with Cloudflare, whether deploying greenfield solutions or migrating from legacy providers.

We've deployed and managed Cloudflare for organisations across government, finance, retail, entertainment, media, and professional services. Our clients trust us where failure isn't an option.

Our experience spans:

  • Accelerating and protecting public-facing web properties at scale
  • Building applications on Cloudflare's serverless platform
  • Securing internal operations on Cloudflare's global network
  • Cloud and security optimisation

With Cloudflare now handling over 25% of global internet traffic and 10 trillion daily requests, we help organisations leverage this platform to its full potential.

Giving you confidence and value

Free technical assessments: We give you confidence by helping you validate technical fit and implementation approach early, before you commit.

Flexible contracting models: CDS provides a clean and fast approach with direct contracts or subcontracts through Cloudflare, whichever works best for your procurement process.

Proof of value (POV) delivery: We demonstrate Cloudflare capabilities in your actual environment, so you can see the impact before full deployment.

Architecture validation and scoping: We help you answer the "how" question and provide implementation roadmaps to reduce risk and accelerate decision-making.

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Implementation and delivering customer success

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Certified expert delivery: Our team handles configuration, testing, and deployment using agile methodology with clear milestones, so you always know where you stand.

Infrastructure as Code: Pen-tested baselines and automated deployment mean faster, safer rollouts with repeatability and consistency built in.

Risk mitigation built-in: We've migrated critical government systems with zero downtime. We know how to manage complexity and keep services running.

Smooth handover: Comprehensive documentation and training ensure your team is set up for success and confident managing the platform.

24/7 managed service: Ongoing monitoring, support, and optimisation give you peace of mind—we're always watching, so you don't have to.

Continuous optimisation: Extract ongoing value through regular performance reviews, configuration improvements, and proactive recommendations.

Cloudflare Catalyst

Audit
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Expert SWOT analysis of your current environment to assess best practice and alignment with your goals.

Quick start
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World class expertise and guidance during onboard. Accessible via a flexible draw down.

Implementation
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Expert, certified, efficient configuration, testing and deployment. Delivered with agility to get value quickly and safely.

1st and 2nd line

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Performance and security assurance via SLA defined 24/7 ITIL service desk response and resolution support.

Diagnosis & discovery

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Discovery and design activity to help you understand your needs and define and document a solution.

Proof of value

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Deliver PVs to provide ability to meet your technical, commercial and strategic objectives before investing.

IaC/Automation

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Leveraging pen tested performance and security baseline and infrastructure as code DevOps methodology

Management/
optimisation

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Proactive review and optimisation to manage and leverage opportunity.

Testimonials

"Since migrating, we have experienced 100% service uptime which is  key when hosting a national platform providing essential services to the UK public…exemplar how a successful digital project should be run."

Mohammad Asif
Head of Service
Metropolitan Police

"CDS achieved this status by demonstrating several key strengths. As early adopters with a range of experience, the CDS team possesses deep, proven expertise and a successful track record in delivering complex Cloudflare solutions across the public and private sectors. The rigorous validation process confirmed their mastery of the entire platform, particularly their ability to deploy using modern practices like Automation and CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery), establishing them as a reliable authority for digital transformation and security challenges.

“Their commitment to Cloudflare meant they could be proactive and flexible and represent both Cloudflare's and customers' best interests. CDS has a long-standing and dedicated commitment to the Cloudflare platform. This commitment allows them to be proactive in adopting and advocating for new technologies, flexible in designing bespoke solutions, and strategically aligned to ensure that both Cloudflare's product vision and the customer's specific business needs are met simultaneously."

João Vieira
Principal Partner Service Delivery Manager
Cloudflare

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If it's complex and critical, clients trust us

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Helping protecting society - Reporting and managing crime nationally across 41 police forces.

"Since migrating, we have experienced 100% service uptime which is key when hosting a national platform providing essential services to the UK public."- Mohammad Asif, Head of Service, Single Online Home National Digital Team.

  • Migrated entire ecosystem in 6 weeks, zero downtime.
  • 100% uptime since 2022 despite 50M malicious requests monthly.
  • £350k annual savings.
  • Phase rollout across 41 of 43 forces

Single Online Home case study

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Delivering critical care to children and families in need.

  • Built single purpose-built digital platform for regulation, case management, professional standards, and registration.
  • We used a multi-cloud architecture that had Cloudflare at the heart of the solution, facilitating a full 3.5 years of 100% uptime.
  • Developed applications 20 times faster.
  • Saved 100s of 1000s of hours annually whilst enabling robust security of critically sensitive personal data.

Social Work England case study

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Quick and easily access to information across complex policing training documents.

  • Built government-grade AI application using Cloudflare Workers AI, AutoRAG, and advanced MCP implementation.
  • Zero-infrastructure serverless deployment with enterprise security for sensitive police training data.

  • Proved Cloudflare's capability beyond static hosting for sophisticated applications requiring real-time AI processing.

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Helping central government reliably manage the entire UK public property estate.
  • Protected mission-critical property management system handling sensitive data for entire UK public property estate.
  • Sub-second load times globally for data-heavy interfaces.
  • 50% faster deployment cycles. Supporting Cabinet Office's "One Estate" strategy.
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Ensuring people arrive at work, holidays, family celebrations, on time.

  • Protected journey planner serving 2.5 million daily visitors with real-time station, service, and fare data.
  • Handles daily peaks of up to 10 million users.
  • During July 2022 rail strikes, managed over 227 million requests with negligible impact on response times.
  • No further impact from DDoS attacks.

National Rail case study

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Ensuring always-on access for Europe's leading health and wellness group.

  • Fixed an implementation issue that was affecting remote workers causing major disruption.

  • 15.4 Million malicious requests per month mitigated by Cloudflare

  • 100% uptime of applications

Our Cloudflare expertise

Modern security that verifies every user and device before granting access, no matter where they connect from.

We help organisations move beyond traditional perimeter-based security to a Zero Trust model that assumes nothing is trustworthy by default. Our Cloudflare Zero Trust expertise covers:

Secure access: Replace legacy VPNs with identity-based access controls that verify users and check device health before connecting to applications and infrastructure. Users get seamless access to what they need, nothing more.

Shadow IT and AI: Gain visibility into unsanctioned applications and AI tools being used across your organisation. We deploy Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) capabilities and gateway controls that automatically discover shadow IT, assess SaaS application risks, and identify AI tool usage. This means you can make informed decisions about what to block, monitor, or formally adopt.

Web and email protection: Filter malicious content before it reaches your users. We implement web gateways that block threats in real-time and deploy advanced email security that stops phishing attempts before they land in inboxes.

Data security: Prevent sensitive information from leaving your organisation. We configure policies that detect and block unauthorised sharing of customer data, financial records, and intellectual property across all your applications.

Application connectivity: Connect users to private applications without exposing them to the internet. We set up secure tunnels that keep your infrastructure hidden while maintaining fast, reliable access for authorised users.

Visibility and control: Gain complete visibility into your security posture with centralised logging and monitoring. Track access patterns, investigate threats, and manage everything from SaaS application usage to AI tool adoption.

Build and deploy applications at the edge, closer to your users, without managing infrastructure.

We help development teams leverage Cloudflare's global network to run applications with lower latency, reduced costs, and simplified operations. Our platform expertise covers:

Edge compute: Deploy serverless applications that run on Cloudflare's network in milliseconds. We build APIs, microservices, and full web applications that execute close to users worldwide, eliminating cold starts and reducing response times without provisioning or managing servers.

Data storage: Store and retrieve data globally with the right tool for each use case. We implement key-value stores for configuration and feature flags, SQL databases for relational data, object storage for files and media, and vector databases for AI-powered search, all optimised for edge performance.

Stateful applications: Build real-time collaborative tools, chat systems, and interactive applications that maintain consistent state. We create solutions where each user or resource gets its own globally coordinated instance, enabling features like live editing, gaming, and session management.

Database acceleration: Connect your existing databases to edge applications without compromising performance. We implement intelligent connection pooling and caching layers that dramatically reduce query latency for PostgreSQL and MySQL databases, making traditional infrastructure feel edge-native.

Asynchronous workflows: Process background tasks and handle message queues without dedicated job servers. We build systems for email delivery, data processing, and event-driven workflows that scale automatically and handle failures gracefully.

AI Integration: Run machine learning models at the edge with GPU-powered inference. We integrate AI capabilities like semantic search, content generation, and embeddings directly into your applications, delivering intelligent features with minimal latency.

Observability: Monitor application performance and user behaviour in real-time. We implement custom metrics, time-series analytics, and event streaming that give you visibility into how your edge applications are performing globally.

Keep your websites, applications, and APIs fast, available, and protected from evolving threats.

We implement Cloudflare's application services to ensure your digital properties perform reliably while staying secure against sophisticated attacks. Our expertise includes:

Application security: Protect your web applications and APIs from the latest threats. We deploy intelligent firewalls that block common vulnerabilities and zero-day exploits, stop DDoS attacks before they impact users, and distinguish legitimate traffic from malicious bots attempting credential stuffing or data scraping.

Performance and reliability: Deliver content faster to users worldwide through Cloudflare's global network. We configure intelligent routing that finds the fastest path to your applications, implement load balancing that automatically routes around failures, and optimise caching strategies to reduce server load and improve response times.

API protection: Secure your APIs with automated discovery, schema validation, and certificate-based authentication. We help you identify shadow APIs, enforce proper request structures, and prevent abuse through rate limiting and behavioural analysis.

Traffic management: Control how requests reach your applications. We set up rate limiting to prevent brute-force attacks and API abuse, configure SSL/TLS to encrypt all traffic automatically, and implement health monitoring that ensures traffic only reaches healthy infrastructure.

Visibility and governance: Get complete insight into your application security posture. We provide centralised dashboards showing real-time threats, traffic patterns, and potential misconfigurations across all your properties, making it easy to spot and respond to issues before they become problems.

Secure AI adoption while maintaining control over how AI tools are used across your organisation.

As AI becomes embedded in business operations, we help you balance innovation with security and governance. Our AI expertise includes:

AI discovery and governance: Understand what AI tools your organisation is actually using. We implement discovery systems that identify both approved and shadow AI applications, track usage patterns, and enforce policies that align with your data protection requirements and compliance obligations.

AI application security: Protect AI-powered applications from emerging threats. We deploy defences against prompt injection attacks, model abuse, and data extraction attempts, implementing security controls based on OWASP's framework for large language model vulnerabilities before they can compromise your systems.

Data protection for AI: Prevent sensitive information from being exposed through AI interactions. We configure filters that detect and block personally identifiable information, financial data, and proprietary content in prompts and responses, ensuring your data stays protected even as employees use AI tools.

AI content protection: Control how AI systems interact with your content. We implement bot detection and blocking to prevent unauthorised AI crawlers from scraping your websites, configure robots.txt policies, and provide visibility into which AI services are accessing your data.

AI model deployment: Run AI models securely on Cloudflare's network with low latency. We help development teams deploy machine learning models at the edge, integrate AI capabilities into applications, and manage model access through secure APIs, all while maintaining control over data flows.

Usage controls and monitoring: Enforce guardrails around AI tool usage. We set up policies that prevent toxic or inappropriate prompts, monitor AI application interactions in real-time, and provide analytics that show how AI is being used across your organisation.

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