Cloudflare’s priority is growth. They intentionally take on customer risk and technical risk to try to maximize growth. As a result they incline toward hosting

Cloudflare’s priority is growth. They intentionally take on customer risk and technical risk to try to maximize growth. As a result they incline toward hosting whoever wants to use them, and moving fast and breaking things. Neither of these align with typical federal govt approach to IT infrastructure, which emphasizes reliability and avoiding known risk. It’s just a big personality mismatch, and there’s no reason for either to resolve it. Cloudflare doesn’t need the feds, and the feds don’t need Cloudflare, at least not commercially.