2026 Cloudflare App Innovation Report

The 2026 Cloudflare App Innovation Report explains why application modernization has become a strategic necessity for organizations facing AI acceleration, rising cyber threats, and increasing user expectations. Based on insights from over 2,350 global leaders, the report shows that modernization leaders gain competitive advantage by building resilient, secure, and agile application foundations that enable rapid innovation at scale.

• Modernization leaders adopt an AI-first mindset, using modern infrastructure to scale AI faster and achieve stronger business impact.
• Security embedded by design reduces risk, accelerates innovation, and enables trust across applications and infrastructure.
• Organizational agility — streamlined decision-making, bold investment, and developer enablement — separates leaders from laggards.

The report concludes that modernization is both a technical and cultural shift. Organizations that unify applications and infrastructure on a single platform can move faster, scale securely, and continuously innovate. Those that delay risk falling behind as AI, security demands, and user expectations redefine competition.