Closing out 2022 with our latest Impact Report
Our Impact Report is an annual summary highlighting how we are trying to build a better Internet and the progress we are making on our environmental, social, and governance priorities.
How Cloudflare advocates for a better Internet
In this blog we outline how we advocate, across the many jurisdictions where we operate, for a better Internet, in our engagement with governments and regulators.
Everything you might have missed during Cloudflare's Impact Week 2022
And that’s a wrap! Impact Week 2022 has come to a close. Over the last week, Cloudflare announced new commitments in our mission to help build a better Internet, including delivering Zero Trust services for the most vulnerable voices and for critical infrastructure providers.
Helping build a safer Internet by measuring BGP RPKI Route Origin Validation
Is BGP safe yet? If the question needs asking, then it isn't. But how far the Internet is from this goal is what we set out to answer.
Working to help the HBCU Smart Cities Challenge
Learn how Cloudflare is empowering the HBCU Smart Cities Challenge
Introducing Cloudflare's Third Party Code of Conduct
We are excited to share our Third Party Code of Conduct, specifically formulated with our suppliers, resellers and other partners in mind.
The latest from Cloudflare's seventeen Employee Resource Groups
The ERGs at Cloudflare have helped us realize the power of community and how critical it is for hybrid work.
Partnering with civil society to track Internet shutdowns with Radar Alerts and API
Learn more on how Cloudflare works with civil society organizations to provide tools to track Internet shutdowns using Radar Alerts and API.
A new, configurable and scalable version of Geo Key Manager, now available in Closed Beta
We’re excited to announce a new version of Geo Key Manager — one that allows customers to define boundaries by country, by a region, or by a standard, such as “only store my private keys in FIPS compliant data centers” — now available in Closed Beta.
Cloudflare is joining the AS112 project to help the Internet deal with misdirected DNS queries
Cloudflare is participating in the AS112 project, becoming an operator of the loosely coordinated, distributed sink of the reverse lookup (PTR) queries for RFC 1918 addresses, dynamic DNS updates and other ambiguous addresses.
How Cloudflare helps next-generation markets
The speed of an Internet connection is more about decreasing real-world latency than adding underutilized bandwidth.
Applying Human Rights Frameworks to our approach to abuse
Cloudflare launched its first Human Rights Policy in 2021, formally stating our commitment to respect human rights under the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs)
Independent report shows: moving to Cloudflare can cut your carbon footprint
Preliminary study results find Cloudflare product to be up to 90% more carbon efficient than equivalent on premise hardware.
Cloudflare achieves FedRAMP authorization to secure more of the public sector
Cloudflare for Government expands Cloudflare’s ability to protect and secure the Public Sector
More bots, more trees
Cloudflare’s Bot Fight Mode caught 6x more bots in 2022, and we’re contributing to a new tree planting project in West Bengal.
Historical emissions offsets (and Scope 3 sneak preview)
Today, we are excited to announce our first step toward offsetting our historic emissions by investing in 6,060 MTs worth of reforestation carbon offsets as part of the Pacajai Reduction of Emissions
How we redesigned our offices to be more sustainable
As we reimagine how our physical office spaces support the work we do at Cloudflare, sustainable design and operations is at the forefront of our design philosophy and one of the underlying premises that affects all aspects of our workplaces.
A more sustainable end-of-life for your legacy hardware appliances with Cloudflare and Iron Mountain
Today, as part of Cloudflare’s Impact Week, we’re excited to announce an opportunity for Cloudflare customers to make it easier to decommission and dispose of their used hardware appliances sustainably.
How we’re making Cloudflare’s infrastructure more sustainable
Our hardware sustainability initiative encapsulates using hardware components for as long as possible, recycling them responsibly when it is time to decommission them, and selecting the most power-efficient options for our workloads.
Project Safekeeping – protecting the world’s most vulnerable infrastructure with Zero Trust
Cloudflare’s mission is to help make a better Internet. Starting December 13, 2022, we will help support these vulnerable infrastructure by providing our enterprise-level Zero Trust cybersecurity
The US government is working on an “Internet for all” plan. We’re on board.
The US government has a $65 billion program to get all Americans on the Internet. It’s a great initiative.
How Cloudflare helps protect small businesses
In this blog, we’ll share new research on how small businesses, including those using our free services, have leveraged Cloudflare services to make their businesses more secure and resistant to disruption.
The Montgomery, Alabama Internet Exchange is making the Internet faster. We’re happy to be there.
Internet Exchanges are a critical part of a strong Internet. Here’s the story of one of them.
Cloudflare expands Project Pangea to connect and protect (even) more community networks
A year and a half ago, Cloudflare launched Project Pangea to help provide Internet services to underserved communities. Today, we're sharing what we've learned by partnering with community networks, and announcing an expansion of the project.
Democratizing access to Zero Trust with Project Galileo
Learn how organizations under Project Galileo use Cloudflare Zero Trust to protect their organization from cyberattacks.
How Cloudflare helps secure the inboxes of democracy
Cloudflare email security tool worked hard in the 2022 midterm elections to ensure that the email inboxes of those seeking office were secure.
Expanding Area 1 email security to the Athenian Project
We are excited to share that we have grown our offering under the Athenian Project to include Cloudflare’s Area 1 email security suite to help state and local governments protect against a broad
Cloudflare Zero Trust for Project Galileo and the Athenian Project
Starting today, we are making the Cloudflare One Zero Trust suite available to teams that qualify for Projects Galileo or Athenian at no cost.
Two months later: Internet use in Iran during the Mahsa Amini Protests
A series of protests began in Iran on September 16, following the death in custody of Mahsa Amini — a 22-year-old who had been arrested for violating Iran’s mandatory hijab law. The protests and civil unrest have continued to this day.
The challenges of sanctioning the Internet
As governments continue to use sanctions as a foreign policy tool, we think it’s important that policymakers continue to hear from Internet infrastructure companies about how the legal framework is impacting their ability to support a global Internet.
The latest on attacks, traffic patterns and cyber protection in Ukraine
On February 24, 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine, Cloudflare jumped into action to provide services that could help prevent potentially destructive cyber attacks and keep the global Internet flowing.
Welcome to Cloudflare’s Impact Week
Over the course of this Impact Week, we will tell other stories about the way that the Internet, and Cloudflare specifically, provide an optimistic opportunity to improve our world.
New! Security Analytics provides a comprehensive view across all your traffic
Security Analytics gives you a security lens across all of your HTTP traffic, not only mitigated requests, allowing you to focus on what matters most: traffic deemed malicious but potentially not mitigated.
Stop attacks before they are known: making the Cloudflare WAF smarter
Today we are making the WAF smarter by increasing availability of our new machine learning powered enhancement, the WAF Attack Score!
Alex Kim: Why I joined Cloudflare
I am excited to announce that as of November 1, I have joined Cloudflare as Country Manager of South Korea to help build a better Internet and to expand Cloudflare’s growing customer, partner, and local teams in Korea.
Adjusting pricing, introducing annual plans, and accelerating innovation
After not raising prices in our history, this was something we thought carefully about before deciding to do. While we have over a decade of network expansion and innovation under our belts, what may not be intuitive is that our goal is not to increase revenue from this change.
Cloudflare partners to simplify China connectivity for corporate networks
Today we’re excited to announce expansion of our Cloudflare One product suite to tackle these problems, with the goal of creating the best SASE experience for users and organizations in China
The Linux Kernel Key Retention Service and why you should use it in your next application
Many leaks happen because of software bugs and security vulnerabilities. In this post we will learn how the Linux kernel can help protect cryptographic keys from a whole class of potential security vulnerabilities: memory access violations.
An early look at Thanksgiving 2022 Internet trends
Yesterday, November 24, 2022, was Thanksgiving Day in the US. Last year, we saw how the US paused shopping (and browsing) for Thanksgiving. So, how was it this year?
Cloudflare servers don't own IPs anymore – so how do they connect to the Internet?
In this blog we'll discuss how we manage Cloudflare IP addresses used to retrieve the data from the Internet, how our egress network design has evolved, how we optimized it for best use of available IP space and introduce our soft-anycast technology
Why BGP communities are better than AS-path prepends
Routing on the Internet follows a few basic principles. Unfortunately not everything on the Internet is created equal, and prepending can do more harm than good. In this blog post we’ll talk about the problems that prepending aims to solve, and some alternative solutions
Why Cloudflare’s one of the Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces in 2022
We are proud to share that Cloudflare has been named one of the Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces in 2022 by Newsweek and Best Practice Institute (BPI)
How we detect route leaks and our new Cloudflare Radar route leak service
In this blog post, we will introduce our new system designed to detect route leaks and its integration on Cloudflare Radar and its public API.
How Cloudflare instruments services using Workers Analytics Engine
Learn how Cloudflare uses our own Workers Analytics Engine product to capture analytics about our own products!
ICYMI: Developer Week 2022 announcements
This week we made over 30 announcements, in case you missed any here’s a quick round-up.
Send Cloudflare Workers logs to a destination of your choice with Workers Trace Events Logpush
Workers Trace Events Logpush gives new levels of visibility into Workers invocations, console.log messages and errors. It is now available to everyone on the Workers Paid and Enterprise plans!
Network performance update: Developer Week 2022
Cloudflare did the measurements to prove we’re the fastest developer platform, beating out all the other competition.
Doubling down on local development with Workers: Miniflare meets workerd
Today, we’re taking local development to the next level by releasing Miniflare 3, powered by the open-source workerd runtime, along with support for migrating existing dashboard projects and using real data locally.
Improving Workers TypeScript support: accuracy, ergonomics and interoperability
Today, we’re excited to announce the next major release of Workers TypeScript definitions with a bunch of improvements, and the open-sourcing of the new automatic generation scripts.
Twilio Segment Edge SDK powered by Cloudflare Workers
With Segment Edge SDK, built on Cloudflare Workers, developers can collect high-quality first-party data and use Segment Edge SDK to access real-time user profiles and state, to deliver personalized
How we built it: the technology behind Cloudflare Radar 2.0
Radar 2.0 was launched last month during Cloudflare's Birthday Week as a complete product revamp. This blog explains how we built it technically. Hopefully, it will inspire other developers to build complex web apps using Cloudflare products.
Spice up your sites on Cloudflare Pages with Pages Functions General Availability
Pages is officially a full stack platform with Pages Functions now Generally Available. Pages is harnessing the power and scalability of Workers and specializing them to align with the Pages developer experience.
The most programmable Supercloud with Cloudflare Snippets
Today we are announcing Cloudflare Snippets. Snippets are a simple way of executing a small piece of Javascript on select HTTP requests, using the ruleset engine filtering logic.
Server-side render full stack applications with Pages Functions
Page Functions are now out of beta, bringing the ability to add dynamic server-side rendering to your applications. Pages makes it easy to deploy applications built using all the major frameworks.
Keep track of Workers’ code and configuration changes with Deployments
Today we’re happy to announce Deployments for Workers. Deployments allow developers to audit changes made to their applications.
Announcing the first Workers Launchpad cohort and growth of the program to $2 billion
Announcing the Fall 2022 cohort of 25 Workers Launchpad startups and growth of the program from $1.25BN to $2BN
How Cloudflare uses Terraform to manage Cloudflare
Cloudflare uses the Cloudflare Terraform provider extensively to make changes to our internal accounts as easy as opening a pull request.
Incremental adoption of micro-frontends with Cloudflare Workers
With Cloudflare Workers, our fragment-based micro-frontend architecture, and fragment piercing technique, engineering teams can incrementally improve large frontends in a fraction of the time, yielding significant user and developer experience gains.
Making static sites dynamic with Cloudflare D1
In this blog post, I'll show you how to use D1 to add comments to a static blog site. To do this, we'll construct a new D1 database and build a simple JSON API that allows the creation and retrieval of comments.
The Cloudflare API now uses OpenAPI schemas
Cloudflare now has OpenAPI Schemas available for the API. Users can use these schemas in any open source OpenAPI Tooling.
