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title: Reference Architectures
description: Browse Cloudflare reference architecture documents.
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# Reference Architectures

Diagrams, design patterns and detailed best practices to help you generate solutions with Cloudflare products.

Reference architecture documents and diagrams are designed to provide a foundational knowledge of the Cloudflare platform and products. Building on the information in these documents, you can architect software solutions based on your specific context and needs.

  
* [ Cloudflare Security Architecture ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/reference-architecture/architectures/security/)
* [ Content Delivery Network (CDN) Reference Architecture ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/reference-architecture/architectures/cdn/)
* [ CrowdStrike and Cloudflare - A unified security ecosystem for automated, risk-based protection ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/reference-architecture/architectures/cloudflare-sase-with-crowdstrike/)
* [ Enhancing security posture with SentinelOne and Cloudflare One ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/reference-architecture/architectures/cloudflare-sase-with-sentinelone/)
* [ Evolving to a SASE architecture with Cloudflare ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/reference-architecture/architectures/sase/)
* [ Load Balancing Reference Architecture ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/reference-architecture/architectures/load-balancing/)
* [ Magic Transit Reference Architecture ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/reference-architecture/architectures/magic-transit/)
* [ Multi-vendor Application Security and Performance Reference Architecture ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/reference-architecture/architectures/multi-vendor/)
* [ Reference Architecture using Cloudflare SASE with Microsoft ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/reference-architecture/architectures/cloudflare-sase-with-microsoft/)
* [ AI Security for Apps Reference Architecture ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/reference-architecture/architectures/ai-security-for-apps/)
* [ Understanding Email Security Deployments ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/reference-architecture/architectures/email-security-deployments/)

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