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Engineering — Amazon’s $2bn IPv4 tax — and how you can avoid paying it

Amazon’s $2bn IPv4 tax — and how you can avoid paying it

In this blog, we’ll explain a little bit more about the technology involved, but most importantly, give you a step-by-step walkthrough of how Cloudflare can help you eliminate the need to pay Amazon for something that they shouldn’t be charging you for in the first place

AAnieAnie·September 26, 2023Engineering
SRE & Ops — Traffic anomalies and notifications with Cloudflare Radar

Traffic anomalies and notifications with Cloudflare Radar

Cloudflare Radar now displays country and ASN traffic anomalies in the Outage Center as they are detected, as well as publishing anomaly information via API. We are also launching Radar notifications, enabling users to subscribe to notifications about traffic anomalies

DBDavid BelsonDavid Belson·September 26, 2023SRE & Ops
Databases — Getting Started With Neon Branching — Smashing Magazine

Getting Started With Neon Branching — Smashing Magazine

Branches are a really nice (and safe) way to configure or reconfigure your database without fear of screwing up the production database. Let’s take a closer look at how branching works with [Neon](https://bit.ly/46cEgX1), and the good news is, you probably already know how it works!

PSPaul ScanlonPaul Scanlon·September 26, 2023Databases
Performance — Cloudflare Fonts: enhancing website font privacy and speed

Cloudflare Fonts: enhancing website font privacy and speed

Introducing Cloudflare Fonts. Enhance privacy and performance for websites using Google Fonts by loading fonts from their own origin. Improve user privacy, enhance site performance, and simplify the process. No need for code changes. Simply enable Cloudflare Fonts in your dashboard

MBMatt Bullock, WilliamMatt Bullock, William·September 25, 2023Performance
Networking — Traffic transparency: unleashing the power of Cloudflare Trace

Traffic transparency: unleashing the power of Cloudflare Trace

Today, we are excited to announce Cloudflare Trace! Cloudflare Trace is available to all our customers. Cloudflare Trace enables you to understand how HTTP requests traverse your zone's configuration and what Cloudflare Rules are being applied to the request

MBMatt BullockMatt Bullock·September 25, 2023Networking
Security — EU hosting for Figma and FigJam files

EU hosting for Figma and FigJam files

Figma announces new EU hosting options for Figma and FigJam files. Read more on our commitment to data security and what this means for Enterprise plan customers.

FFigma·September 25, 2023Security