Today we are excited to a ounce that our Ethereum and IPFS gateways are publicly available to all Cloudflare customers for the first time. Since our a ouncement of our private beta last September the interest in our Eth and IPFS gateways has been overwhelming. We are humbled by the demand for these ...

A little under four years ago we a ounced Cloudflare's first experiments in web3 with our gateway to the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS). Three years ago we a ounced our experimental Ethereum Gateway. At Cloudflare, we often take experimental bets on the future of the Inte et to help new technolog...

What happens to the Inte et traffic in countries where many observe Ramadan? Depending on the country, there are clear shifts and changing patte s in Inte et use, particularly before dawn and after sunset.This year, Ramadan started on April 2, and it continued until May 1, 2022, (dates vary and are ...

In September 2021, we shared extensive benchmarking results of 1,000 networks all around the world. The results showed that on a range of tests (TCP co ection time, time to first byte, time to last byte), and on different measures (p95, mean), Cloudflare was the fastest provider in 49% of networks a...

After many a ouncements from Platform Week, we’re thrilled to make one more: our Spring Developer Challenge!The theme for this challenge is building real-time, collaborative applications — one of the most exciting use-cases emerging in the Cloudflare ecosystem. This is an opportunity for developers ...

In Cloudflare’s global network, every server runs the whole software stack. Therefore, it's critical that every server performs to its maximum potential capacity. In order to provide us better flexibility from a supply chain perspective, we buy server hardware from multiple vendors with the exact sa...

We’re excited to a ounce the availability of Network Analytics Logs. Magic Transit, Magic Firewall, Magic WAN, and Spectrum customers on the Enterprise plan can feed packet samples directly into storage services, network monitoring tools such as Kentik, or their Security Information Event Management...

Before we dive into my experience inte ing at Cloudflare, let me quickly introduce myself. I am currently a master’s student at the National University of Singapore (NUS) studying Computer Science. I am passionate about building software that improves people’s lives and making the Inte et a better p...

There’s only one song contest that is more than six decades old and not only presents many new songs (ABBA, Celine Dion, Julio Iglesias and Domenico Modugno shined there), but also has a global stage that involves 40 countries — performers represent those countries and the public votes. The 66th edi...

“Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”—u2009Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, 1789The famous expression highlighting that only “death and taxes” seem...

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Inte et. We continue to grow our network, and it is important for us to do so responsibly.Since Earth Day 2021, some pieces of this effort have included:Making a commitment to powering our network with 100% renewable energyHosting our first

We are excited to a ounce that as of today, network security teams can procure and use Magic Transit, Cloudflare’s industry-leading DDoS mitigation solution, and Kentik’s network observability as an integrated solution. We are excited to help our customers not just with technical simplicity, but bu

As part of the recently passed Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Infrastructure Act) in the United States, Congress asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to finalize rules that would require broadband Inte et access service providers (ISPs) display a “label” that provides consumer

We are thrilled to a ounce the availability of Health Checks in the Cloudflare Dashboard’s Notifications tab, available to all Pro, Business, and Enterprise customers. Now, you can get critical alerts on the health of your origin without checking your inbox! Keep reading to lea more about how thi

Today, March 22, 2022 at 03:30 UTC we lea t of a compromise of Okta. We use Okta inte ally for employee identity as part of our authentication stack. We have investigated this compromise carefully and do not believe we have been compromised as a result. We do not use Okta for customer accounts; cu

An AS, or Autonomous System, is a group of routable IP prefixes belonging to a single entity, and is one of the key building blocks of the Inte et. Inte et providers, public clouds, gove ments, and other organizations have one or more ASes that they use to co ect their users or systems to the re

A little over a decade ago, Cloudflare launched at TechCrunch Disrupt. At the time, we talked about three core principles that differentiated Cloudflare from traditional security vendors: be more secure, more performant, and ridiculously easy to use. Ease of use is at the heart of every decision we

The 94th Academy Awards happened this past Sunday, March 27, 2022. In the global event we got to see several Oscars attributed to wi ers like CODA, Jane Campion (the director of The Power of the Dog) and also Dune (which won six Oscars), but also moments that had a clear impact in the Inte et traf

On Friday, March 25, 2022, Google published an emergency security update for all Chromium-based web browsers to patch a high severity vulnerability (CVE-2022-1096). At the time of writing, the specifics of the vulnerability are restricted until the majority of users have patched their local browsers

Magic Firewall is Cloudflare’s replacement for network-level firewall hardware. It evaluates gigabits of traffic every second against user-defined rules that can include millions of IP addresses. Writing a firewall rule for each IP address is cumbersome and verbose, so we have been building out supp