GoKawiilCloudflare fronts 89.6% of European firms that use a CDN, CipherCue data shows
CipherCue analyzed 44,143 European companies with an identifiable content delivery network and found 39,547 of them, or 89.6%, run behind Cloudflare. Amazon's CloudFront trails far behind at 3,112 companies, followed by Fastly with 1,299 and Akamai with 396. The figures only cover firms that use a CDN at all, excluding those serving sites directly from their own servers.
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Because a CDN sits in front of a site handling traffic, encryption and filtering, an outage at one dominant provider can simultaneously take down a huge share of unrelated businesses. Cloudflare's outsized share among European CDN users means its infrastructure has effectively become a single point of failure for a large slice of the region's web presence, raising concentration risk that regulators and enterprises may need to weigh.
- Cloudflare serves 39,547 of 44,143 European companies using a CDN, or 89.6%.
- Amazon CloudFront is a distant second at 3,112, though some of that reflects AWS hosting rather than deliberate CDN choice.
- Fastly and Akamai trail further behind with 1,299 and 396 companies respectively.
Source: ciphercue.com, 2026-09-08
Published there as: “Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare”
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