--- title: Beyond the VPN: Cloudflare Mesh builds a private network... description: Cloudflare has launched Cloudflare Mesh, a private networking service designed to replace legacy VPNs and manual tunnels for connecting multi-cloud... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/beyond-the-vpn-cloudflare-mesh-builds-a-private-network-for-the-age-of-ai-agents-ybbkcwpij twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Beyond the VPN: Cloudflare Mesh builds a private network for the age of AI agents | daily.dev og:description: Cloudflare has launched Cloudflare Mesh, a private networking service designed to replace legacy VPNs and manual tunnels for connecting multi-cloud... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/beyond-the-vpn-cloudflare-mesh-builds-a-private-network-for-the-age-of-ai-agents-ybbkcwpij og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/YBbkCwPij.png og:image:alt: Beyond the VPN: Cloudflare Mesh builds a private network for the age of AI agents og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Beyond the VPN: Cloudflare Mesh builds a private network for the age of AI agents **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Cloudflare has launched Cloudflare Mesh, a private networking service designed to replace legacy VPNs and manual tunnels for connecting multi-cloud infrastructure. The product targets the growing challenge of giving AI agents secure, identity-verified access to internal resources like private databases, staging environments, and internal APIs without exposing them to the public internet. Every agent in a Mesh environment carries a distinct identity, enabling granular access policies. The service integrates with Cloudflare Workers, Workers VPC, and the Agents SDK to provide an end-to-end lifecycle for AI agents running across Cloudflare, private datacenters, or other public clouds like AWS and GCP. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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