Smart(er) Origin Service Level Monitoring
Today we’re excited to announce Origin Error Rate notifications: a new, sophisticated way to detect and notify you when Cloudflare sees elevated levels of 5xx errors from your origin.
Transform Rules:"Requests, Transform and Roll Out!"
Perform URL Normalization, URL Rewriting, or Header Modification without having to write a line of code!
Cloudflare customers can now use Microsoft Azure Data Transfer Routing Preference to enjoy lower data transfer costs
Cloudflare customers can now choose to reduce data transfer cost via the Microsoft Azure Routing Preference Program with just a few clicks.
Strength in Diversity: APAC Heritage Month
In the United States, May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. This year, we wanted to celebrate this occasion in a more inclusive and comprehensive way, which is why we called our celebration APAC Heritage Month.
Account Takeover Protection and WAF mitigations to help stop Global Brute Force Campaigns
Today, we are making our Account Takeover Protection capabilities available to all paid plans at no additional charge.
Cloudflare’s Network Doubles CPU Capacity and Expands Into Ten New Cities in Four New Countries
Cloudflare's global network is always expanding. We've recently added ten new cities and four new countries to our network.
Browser VNC with Zero Trust Rules
Starting today, we’re excited to share that you can now shift another traditional client-driven use case to a browser. Teams can now provide their users with a Virtual Network Computing (VNC) client fully rendered in the browser with built-in Zero Trust controls.
Announcing Rollbacks and API Access for Pages
Today we announce two new features: rollbacks and the Pages API.
More products, more partners, and a new look for Cloudflare Logs
Customers can now use our dashboard to push HTTP, Spectrum, Firewall, and NEL Events directly to Datadog, Sumo Logic, Splunk, or an S3-compatible storage provider.
Sudan's exam-related Internet shutdowns
To prevent cheating in exams many countries restrict or even shut down Internet access during critical exam hours. I wrote two weeks ago about Syria having planned Internet shutdowns during June, for exams. Sudan is doing the same thing and has had four shutdowns so far.
Cloudflare TV: Doing it Live, 1,000 Times and Counting
Since launching in June 2020, Cloudflare TV has featured over 1,000 original live episodes covering an incredible array of topics and we're just getting started.
Announcing WARP for Linux and Proxy Mode
Starting today Cloudflare WARP is available for Linux and comes with the ability to run as a local proxy.
Building Waiting Room on Workers and Durable Objects
Our product is specifically built for customers who experience high volumes of traffic, so we needed to run code at the edge in a highly scalable manner. Cloudflare has a great culture of building upon its own products, so we naturally thought of Workers.
Enable secure access to applications with Cloudflare WAF and Azure Active Directory
Cloudflare and Microsoft Azure Active Directory have partnered to provide an integration specifically for web applications using Azure Active Directory B2C
Interconnect Anywhere — Reach Cloudflare’s network from 1,600+ locations
Today, Cloudflare is excited to announce a new wave of interconnection points and partners that quadruples our interconnectivity.
Introducing Zero Trust Private Networking
Starting today, you can build identity-aware, Zero Trust network policies using Cloudflare for Teams.
Celebrating 7 Years of Project Galileo
Every June, we celebrate the anniversary of Project Galileo. This year, we are proud to celebrate seven years of protecting the most vulnerable groups on the Internet from cyberattacks.
Modify HTTP request headers with Transform Rules
HTTP request headers can now be modified with Cloudflare Transform Rules.
Network-based policies in Cloudflare Gateway
Today we’re excited to announce the ability for administrators to configure network-based policies in Cloudflare Gateway.
Syria’s exam-related Internet shutdowns
To prevent cheating in exams many countries restrict or even shut down Internet access during critical exam hours. For most of June Syria is having planned Internet shutdowns during critical exam periods.
QUIC Version 1 is live on Cloudflare
QUIC is a new fast and secure transport protocol. Version 1 has just been published as RFC 9000 and today Cloudflare has enabled support for all customers, come try it out.
Building real-time games using Workers, Durable Objects, and Unity
Durable Objects are an awesome addition to the Workers developer ecosystem, allowing you to address and work inside a specific Worker to provide consistency in your applications. You might be wondering "Okay, so what can I build with that?"
Cloudflare’s SOC as a Service
Cloudflare SOC as a Service combines our best-in-class security products and a team of cybersecurity experts within Cloudflare that augment your security and network teams
CDN-Cache-Control: Precision Control for your CDN(s)
A new set of HTTP response headers provide control over our CDN’s caching decisions. CDN-Cache-Control allows customers to control how our CDN behaves without affecting the behavior of other caches.
Improving your monitoring setup by integrating Cloudflare’s analytics data into Prometheus and Grafana
Here at Labyrinth Labs, we put great emphasis on monitoring. Having a working monitoring setup is a critical part of the work we do for our clients. Improving your monitoring setup by integrating Cloudflare’s analytics data into Prometheus and Grafana
Multiplayer Doom on Cloudflare Workers
So, if a developer wants to run their next hit, say a real-time multiplayer game, using nothing but their app and Workers, without any servers or traditional infrastructure, can they? Let’s prove they can. Here's Doom Multiplayer running on top of Cloudflare Workers.
Automating Cloudflare Tunnel with Terraform
An overview on how to use Terraform to automatically deploy Named Tunnels into your infrastructure with Cloudflare.
Humanity wastes about 500 years per day on CAPTCHAs. It’s time to end this madness
We want to remove CAPTCHAs completely. The idea is rather simple: a real human should be able to touch or look at their device to prove they are human, without revealing their identity. Let's explore!
Highly available and highly scalable Cloudflare tunnels
Starting today, we’re thrilled to announce you can run the same tunnel from multiple different cloudflareds simultaneously. This enables graceful restarts, elastic auto-scaling, easier Kubernetes integration, and more reliable tunnels.
Designing the new Cloudflare Web Application Firewall
The Cloudflare Web Application Firewall (WAF) protects websites and applications from malicious traffic attempting to exploit vulnerabilities in server software. It’s a critical piece of the broader security posture of your application.
Branch predictor: How many "if"s are too many? Including x86 and M1 benchmarks!
Is it ok to have if clauses that will basically never be run? Surely, there must be some performance cost to that...
SSHing to my Raspberry Pi 400 from a browser, with Cloudflare Tunnel and Auditable Terminal
This is how I set up a Pi 400 on my home network, used Cloudflare Tunnel to connect it to the Cloudflare network, used Auditable Terminal to connect to the Pi 400 via Cloudflare and the tunnel using nothing more than a browser.
Project Jengo Redux: Cloudflare’s Prior Art Search Bounty Returns
On March 15th, 2021, Cloudflare was sued by a patent troll called Sable Networks. Today, we are launching our efforts to fight back.
Cloudflare obtains new ISO/IEC 27701:2019 privacy certification and what that means for you
Cloudflare is one of the first organisations in our industry to have achieved ISO/IEC 27701:2019 certification, and the first web performance & security company to be certified to the new ISO privacy standard as both a data processor and controller.
Announcing Cloudflare Images beta to simplify your image pipeline
Today, we are announcing the beta of Cloudflare Images: a simple service to store, resize, optimize, and deliver images at scale.
Start building your own private network on Cloudflare today
Starting today, your team can build a private network on Cloudflare’s network.
A Full Circle Journey: Introducing Cloudflare Canada
Toronto will be home to Cloudflare’s first Canadian office and team. While I currently live in San Francisco, I was born and raised in Saskatchewan.
Why I'm helping Cloudflare grow in Canada
I am incredibly excited to join Cloudflare as Head of Sales for Canada to expand the company’s growth in the region as part of its mission to help build a better Internet.
Cloudflare’s Partnership with HashiCorp and Bootstrapping Terraform with Cf-Terraforming
Learn more about Cloudflare and Hashicorp’s partnership and about our new release for our Terraform bootstrapping tool - cf-terraforming.
Containers at the edge: it’s not what you think, or maybe it is
Today, we’re thrilled to announce that we’re exploring a new type of service at the edge: containers. If you have a use case for running containers at our edge, we’d love to know about it!
Introducing workers.new, custom builds, and improved logging for Workers
In the spirit of quickly solving problems, we’re excited to launch three new improvements to the Workers experience, so you can take your next idea and ship it even faster.
Announcing Cloudflare’s Database Partners
Cloudflare introduces Macrometa and Fauna as Edge database partners and adds database connectors for DynamoDB and Aurora to Cloudflare Workers, expanding what developers can build at the edge.
Node.js support in Cloudflare Workers
Check out the current state of Node.js compatibility with Workers. We want to hear from you on which Node.js-dependent libraries and APIs we should support.
Cloudflare Stream now supports NFTs
Today, we’re introducing a new API that takes an ERC-721 token ID and contact address and sets it on a video so every video on Stream can be represented with an NFT.
Announcing Cloudflare for SaaS for Everyone
Before today, SSL for SaaS was only available to Enterprise customers. Today, we are excited to announce that our SaaS solution is available to everyone. And to reflect the evolution of the product since it was first released, we’re changing the name: Cloudflare for SaaS.
A Boring Announcement: Free Tunnels for Everyone
Argo Tunnel has been priced based on bandwidth consumption as part of Argo Smart Routing, Cloudflare’s traffic acceleration feature. Starting today, we’re excited to announce that any organization can use the secure, outbound-only connection feature of the product at no cost.
A Zero Trust terminal in your web browser
Starting today, your team can use that same platform to seamlessly connect to non-HTTP resources from inside of a browser with the same level of Zero Trust control available in web applications.
Introducing WebSockets Support in Cloudflare Workers
WebSockets are a powerful new addition to the Workers platform that unlocks real-time use cases in your application.
Improve your page experience with AMP and Cloudflare Workers Unbound
Google’s new page experience measurements are going to be included in their search ranking in May 2021. Learn more about how to improve your page experience with AMP and Cloudflare Workers.
Bringing AI to the edge with NVIDIA GPUs
To help anyone build AI-based applications Cloudflare is extending the Workers platform to include support for NVIDIA GPUs and TensorFlow. Soon you’ll be able to build AI-based applications that run across the Cloudflare network using pre-built or custom models for inference.
Location-based personalization at the edge with Cloudflare Workers
Geolocation data access is now available and free for all developers on our Workers platform, including users on the free plan!
Expanding the Cloudflare Workers Observability Ecosystem
Cloudflare adds Data Dog, Honeycomb, New Relic, Sentry, Splunk, and Sumologic as observability partners to the Cloudflare Workers Ecosystem
Developer Challenges
Developer week is here! Throughout the week we are running a series of Developer Challenges that give you the perfect excuse to play with our new features. See how many of the challenges you can get through.
Cloudflare Pages is now Generally Available
Today, we’re excited to announce that Cloudflare Pages is now Generally Available and ready for your production needs.
Live stream to multiple platforms with Stream Connect
We are announcing Stream Connect, a service that enables creators and creator platforms to push RTMPS feeds to the Cloudflare edge and have it restreamed to your audience on popular platforms including Twitch, Facebook, and YouTube.
Developers, Developers, Developers: Welcome to Developer Week 2021
This week, like we have done in previous Innovation Weeks (such as Security Week or Privacy Week), we will be making many (about 20) announcements of products and features to make developers’ lives easier.
Per Origin Host Header Override
Load Balancing as a concept is pretty straightforward. Take an existing infrastructure and route requests to the available origin servers so no single server is overwhelmed. Add in some health monitoring to ensure each server has a heartbeat/pulse so proactive decisions can be made.
Jonathon Dixon: Why I joined Cloudflare
I’m excited to announce that on March 1st, I joined Cloudflare as Vice President and GM, Asia Pacific (including Japan and Greater China) to help build and expand Cloudflare’s growing customer and partner base and presence in the region.
Dynamic URL Rewriting at the edge with Cloudflare
Today we are announcing the immediate availability of Transform Rules for all Cloudflare plans. Transform Rules provide Cloudflare administrators with the ability to create URL rewrite rules.
Hackers Spill the Wine: Lockdown Led to Rise in Wine Domains and Wine Scammers
Area 1 Security and Recorded Future researchers report a significant increase in the number of new wine-themed phishing domains registered starting in April 2020, and continuing through at least March 2021.
