
We are proud to share that Cloudflare has been certified and recognized as one of the Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces in 2023 by Newsweek and the Best Practice Institute (BPI) for the second consecutive year.

On 4 October 2023, Cloudflare experienced DNS resolution problems. Some users may have received SERVFAIL DNS responses to valid queries. In this blog, we’re going to talk about what the failure was, why it occurred, and what we’re doing to make sure this doesn’t happen again

On 2023-10-04 at 13:00 UTC, Atlassian released details of the zero-day vulnerability described as “Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Confluence Data Center and Server” (CVE-2023-22515), a zero-day vulnerability impacting Confluence Server and Data Center products
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Himanshu, Daniele·October 4, 2023Security 
Today, we are thrilled to announce that Waiting Room now supports coverage of multiple hostname and path combinations with a single waiting room, giving customers more flexibility and offering broader site coverage without interruptions to end-user flows

We’re announcing the general availability of the Magic WAN Connector, which serves as the glue between your existing network hardware and Cloudflare’s networ

Need a recap or refresher on all the big Birthday Week news this week? This recap has you covered
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Dina, Mia Wang·October 2, 2023AI & ML 
We are now announcing the ability for Cloudflare customers to scan old messages within their Office 365 Inboxes for threats. This Retro Scan will let you look back seven days and see what threats your current email security tool has missed

We're excited to announce a contribution to improving privacy for everyone on the Internet. Encrypted Client Hello, a new standard that prevents networks from snooping on which websites a user is visiting, is now available on all Cloudflare plans.
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Achiel, Alessandro Ghedini·September 29, 2023Engineering 
Now that we’ve eliminated CAPTCHAs at Cloudflare, we want to hasten the demise of CAPTCHAs across the internet. We’re thrilled to announce that Turnstile is generally available, and Turnstile’s ‘Managed’ mode is now completely free to everyone for unlimited use.

Starting today, you can secure the connection between Cloudflare and your origin server with post-quantum cryptography

In this post we are going to share the most recent updates since our last post in June, and tell you about our tools and processes that we use to monitor and improve our network performance

In this blog post we talk about our approach and ongoing research into detecting novel web attack vectors in our WAF before they are seen by a security researcher.
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Michael Tremante·September 29, 2023Security 
Manage AI crawlers, out of the box with Cloudflare
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Reid, Pawel·September 29, 2023AI & ML 
This integration will allow Microsoft Edge users who opt in to browse the Internet more privately, without being tracked across websites

Hyperdrive makes accessing your existing databases from Cloudflare Workers, wherever they are running, hyper fast
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Silverlock, Alex Robinson·September 28, 2023Performance 
D1 is now in open beta, and the theme is “scale”: with higher per-database storage limits and the ability to create more databases, we’re unlocking the ability for developers to build production-scale applications on D1
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Silverlock, Ben Yule·September 28, 2023Databases 
Unleash the fast & furious in your builds with Cloudflare Pages' build caching. Reduce build times by caching previously computed project components. Now in Beta for select frameworks and package managers.

Today, we’re excited to announce an updated Cloudflare Workers playground, where users can develop and test Workers before sharing or deploying them

We’ve heard from developers that configuring and maintaining their own serverless browser automation systems can be quite painful. The Workers Browser Rendering API solves this

Engineers from Cloudflare and Vercel have published a specification of the connect() sockets API for review by the community, along with a Node.js compatible implementation of connect() that developers can start using today
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Dominik, Jasnell·September 28, 2023Frontend 
We introduced integrations with Supabase, PlanetScale, Neon and Upstash. Today, we are thrilled to introduce our newest additions to Cloudflare’s Integrations Marketplace – Sentry, Turso and Momento

Announcing new pricing for Cloudflare Workers, where you are billed based on CPU time, and never for the idle time that your Worker spends waiting on network requests and other I/O.
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Rita, Brendan Irvine Broque·September 28, 2023Performance 
Cloudflare is officially a teenager. We launched on September 27, 2010. Today we celebrate our thirteenth birthday
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Matthew Prince, Michelle Zatlyn·September 27, 2023Engineering 
Today, we’re excited to make a series of announcements that we believe will make a similar impact as Workers did in the future of computing

We are excited to launch Workers AI - an AI inference as a service platform, empowering developers to run AI models with just a few lines of code, all powered by our global network of GPUs
CCloudflare·September 27, 2023AI & ML 
AI Gateway helps developers have greater control and visibility in their AI apps, so that you can focus on building without worrying about observability, reliability, and scaling. AI Gateway handles the things that nearly all AI applications need
CCloudflare·September 27, 2023AI & ML 
Today, we’re excited to announce that we are partnering with Hugging Face to make AI models more accessible and affordable than ever before to developers
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Rita, Philipp Schmid·September 27, 2023AI & ML 
Vectorize is our brand-new vector database offering, designed to let you build full-stack, AI-powered applications entirely on Cloudflare’s global network: and you can start building with it right away
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Silverlock, Jerome·September 27, 2023Databases 
Today, we are introducing WebGPU support to Cloudflare Workers. This blog will explain why it's important, why we did it, how you can use it, and what comes next

Matthew and Michelle, co-founders of Cloudflare, published their annual founders’ letter today. The letter ends with a poem written by an AI running using Workers AI on Cloudflare’s global network.
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John Graham Cumming·September 27, 2023AI & ML 
Cloudflare enables various AI applications. We asked AI companies using Cloudflare how they leverage our platform for their innovative projects.
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Veronica Marin, Dawn·September 27, 2023AI & ML 
Surveys of IT and security leaders indicate that 72% would highly value a secure “any-to-any” cloud platform. And they said they would invest an average of 16% of their entire IT and security budget in such a platform
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Jen Taylor, Sasi·September 26, 2023Security 
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

Use Sippy to incrementally migrate data from S3 to R2 as it’s requested and avoid migration-specific egress fees
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Phillip, Vlad Krasnov·September 26, 2023SRE & Ops 
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

Cloudflare Radar will be publishing anomalous traffic events for countries and Autonomous Systems (ASes). These events are the same ones referenced above that have been triggering our internal workflow to validate and confirm disruptions

We’re changing how we bill for Image Resizing to let you calculate your monthly costs more accurately and reliably. All Image Resizing features will be available under Cloudflare Images

Meet the smartest member of the Cloudflare network team that helps keep you online no matter what happens to the Internet underneath us

We’re excited to share an independent report this week that found that switching enterprise network services from on premises devices to Cloudflare services can cut carbon emissions up to 96%
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Patrick Day, Annika·September 25, 2023Networking 
Customers may now subscribe to Cloudflare Incident Alerts and choose when to get notified based on affected products and level of impact

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

Cloudflare has a lot of new roles, how should we use them, and how can we stay safe

Cloudflare Stream’s LL-HLS support enters open beta today. You can deliver video to your audience faster, reducing the latency a viewer may experience on their player to as little as 3 seconds

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

Building the future is, in part, what Birthday Week is about. Over the past 13 years we’ve announced things like Universal SSL (doubling the size of the encrypted web overnight), or Cloudflare Workers (helping change the way people build and scale applications). This year will be no different
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John Graham Cumming·September 24, 2023Security 
Cloudflare has owned exmaple.com for a few years now, but don’t confuse it with example.com! example.com is a reserved domain name set by the IANA, under the direction of the IETF.

With this integration, joint customers who have both Falcon LogScale and Cloudflare Email Security can now send detection data to be ingested and displayed within their Falcon LogScale dashboard
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Ayush, John Smith·September 21, 2023Security 
We want to give you a behind the scenes look at how we have evolved the core mechanism of our product–namely, exactly how it kicks in to queue traffic in response to spikes

Cloudflare Analytics can now suggest rate limiting threshold based on historic traffic patterns. Rate Limiting also supports a throttle behavior

We just deployed a number of updates to our Client-Side Security Product: Page Shield. As of today we support all major CSP directives, better suggestions, better violation reporting, Page Shield specific user role permissions, and domain insights
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Michael Tremante·September 15, 2023Security 
We're excited to introduce Michele Yetman as Cloudflare's new Chief People Officer

We are extremely excited to announce a new addition to our Load Balancing solution, Private Network Load Balancing with deep integrations with Zero Trust!

Cloudflare One just launched its data protection suite. This blog previews new functionality to protect data and code in SaaS environments with our DLP and CASB services and looks back on what we have built over the past year
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Corey Mahan, James Chang·September 7, 2023Engineering 
This blog announces Cloudflare One for Data Protection — our unified suite to protect data everywhere across web, SaaS, and private applications. Built on and delivered across our entire global network, Cloudflare One’s data protection suite is architected for the risks of modern coding and AI
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James Chang·September 7, 2023AI & ML 
In this blog we’re going to take a closer look at “connection coalescing”, with specific focus on manage it at a large scale
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Suleman, Jonathan Hoyland·September 4, 2023Networking 
We’re excited to announce improvements to Workers Tail that means it can now be enabled for Workers at any size and scale
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Joshua Johnson, Adam Murray·September 1, 2023Distributed 
In this reading list, we want to highlight some of the new additions to Radar, as well as some of the Internet disruptions and trends we’ve observed and published posts about during this year

Today, we're excited to showcase Meter, a provider of Internet infrastructure, is leveraging the Tenant API integration for DNS filtering to help their clients enforce acceptable Internet use policies

You can now “star” up to 10 of the websites and applications you have on Cloudflare for quicker access

This year, Cloudflare welcomed a class of ~40 interns for an unforgettable summer filled with invaluable mentorship, continuous learning, and the chance to make a real-world impact. Get ready to learn about the surprising world of Cloudflare interns in their own words