Cloudflare has announced an expanded partnership with JD Cloud, an intelligent technology service provider and affiliate of JD.com. The two companies report that the initiative is designed to create a global platform for deploying, managing, and scaling artificial intelligence (AI) inference workloads with improved network performance. According to Cloudflare, the collaboration aims to reduce latency for AI inference workloads by up to 80 percent, supporting the increasing demand for geographically distributed AI compute.
The platform integrates Cloudflare’s global intelligent network with JD Cloud’s infrastructure, offering a unified developer experience for cross-border AI application deployment. For data center operators supporting workloads in China, the service automatically routes domestic user traffic to JD Cloud-operated local data centers, while all other traffic is served via the nearest Cloudflare location outside China. This routing is managed without code modification, enabling rapid activation in the China market.
Technical features include Cloudflare’s web application firewall, distributed denial-of-service mitigation, and global content delivery network, bundled with JD Cloud’s infrastructure services. Cloudflare claims these capabilities provide a secure, fast, and reliable environment for mission-critical data center workloads targeting both Chinese and international markets.
Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare, stated, “The future of AI depends on a truly global network that can keep up. Our partnership with JD Cloud makes that possible—giving developers a simple, reliable way to build and run AI applications seamlessly across the world.”
This expanded partnership builds on five years of integration between Cloudflare and JD Cloud, targeting developers and enterprises requiring global and China-based data center presence for high-performance AI and cloud applications.
Source: Cloudflare
