Scaling MCP adoption: Our reference architecture for simpler, safer and cheaper enterprise deployments of MCP

Cloudflare shares their enterprise reference architecture for securely and efficiently deploying Model Context Protocol (MCP) at scale across their organization. - Cloudflare adopted agentic workflows with MCP across product, sales, marketing, and finance teams, requiring security controls for authorization sprawl, prompt injection, and supply chain risks. - Remote MCP servers managed by a centralized team provide better visibility and control compared to locally-hosted servers, eliminating security liabilities from unvetted software sources. - Cloudflare Access provides OAuth-based authentication and identity management for MCP servers sitting in front of private corporate resources, verifying SSO, MFA, and contextual attributes. - MCP server portals centralize discovery, governance, logging, and data loss prevention controls across all authorized MCP servers with fine-grained access policies. - Code Mode reduces token costs by 99.9% by dynamically exposing tools as JavaScript functio

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