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Scaling MCP adoption: Our reference architecture for simpler, safer, and cheaper enterprise deployments of MCP
Cloudflare deployed Model Context Protocol (MCP) company-wide across engineering, product, sales, marketing, and finance teams, securing the rollout with a centralized architecture that includes remote MCP servers on their developer platform, Cloudflare Access for authentication, and newly launched "Code Mode" that reduces token costs by 94-99.9% by collapsing dozens of tool definitions into just two search-and-execute functions. The company also integrated shadow MCP detection through Cloudflare Gateway to identify unauthorized remote MCP servers, while protecting public-facing MCP servers with their Web Application Firewall to guard against prompt injection and data leakage attacks.
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