Cloudflare passes 275 cities, with new locations in India, Saudi Arabia, and Indonesia
Cloudflare's global network has expanded to 275 cities, following the addition of four new locations over the past month. The newly added cities are Ahmedabad and Chandigarh in India, Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, and Yogyakarta in Indonesia. The company says the expansion is part of an ongoing effort to improve the speed, reliability, and security of internet services worldwide.
India expansion focuses on ISP interconnection
The new Indian locations build on an aggressive push into a market with one of the world's largest and fastest-growing digital consumer bases. Cloudflare's strategy in India relies on direct connections with major ISPs, mobile network operators, and internet exchange points. The company reports that it is currently interconnected with networks serving more than 95% of the country's broadband subscribers.
In 2020, Cloudflare operated in seven Indian cities. With the two latest additions, that number now stands at twelve. For one of its largest Indian partners, Cloudflare says its latency performance is better than that of other major platforms across all twelve interconnection points.
Latency gains demonstrated in Saudi Arabia
Even in markets where Cloudflare already has a presence, new locations can yield meaningful performance improvements. The Jeddah deployment serves as an example: though the company already operated six other locations across two Saudi cities, the addition of Jeddah reduced median TCP RTT latency by 26%, from 81 ms to 60 ms.
The magnitude of that improvement becomes clearer at scale. The Jeddah location handles nearly 10 million requests per day, which translates to roughly 55 hours per day of saved waiting time across all users and systems making those requests.
Cloudflare continues to add network locations and regularly publishes performance updates as the footprint grows. The company also invites ISPs interested in hosting a Cloudflare cache to reduce backhaul and improve performance to apply through its Edge Partnership Program.
