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Cloudflare Launches Organizations Feature for Enterprise Account Management at Scale
Key Points
- New Organizations feature enables centralized management of multiple Cloudflare accounts
- Org Super Administrator role provides unified access without individual account memberships
- 27% performance improvement for permission checks on large-scale deployments
Summary
Cloudflare has launched Organizations in beta to help enterprise customers manage multiple Cloudflare accounts from a centralized location. This new feature addresses the complexity enterprises face when managing thousands of users across multiple teams and accounts while maintaining the principle of least privilege.
Key Points
- Hierarchical Management: Organizations adds a new layer above accounts, allowing administrators to manage collections of accounts together
- Org Super Administrator Role: New role with Super Administrator permissions across all organization accounts without requiring individual account memberships
- Centralized Analytics: Roll-up dashboard providing HTTP traffic analytics across all accounts and zones in the organization
- Shared Configurations: Ability to share and centrally manage policies like WAF and Gateway across organization accounts
- Security-First Rollout: Self-serve invitation process ensures no privilege escalation - only Super Administrators can create/join organizations
- Performance Improvements: 27% performance boost for permission checks on enumeration calls for users with access to thousands of accounts
- Major Codebase Changes: Added 133,000 lines of new code and removed 32,000 lines to consolidate authorization systems
Roadmap
- Organization-level audit logs and billing reports
- Additional analytics reports and user roles
- Self-serve account creation
- Expansion to pay-as-you-go customers and partner ecosystem