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Quicksilver v2: evolution of a globally distributed key-value store (Part 1)

2025-07-10

This blog post is the first of a series, in which we share our journey in redesigning Quicksilver — Cloudflare’s distributed key-value store that serves over 3 billion keys per second globally. ...

Quicksilver v2: evolution of a globally distributed key-value store (Part 1)

How TimescaleDB helped us scale analytics and reporting

2025-07-08

Cloudflare Zero Trust Cloudflare One

Cloudflare chose TimescaleDB to power its Digital Experience Monitoring and Zero Trust Analytics products. ...

Robert Cepa

Introducing simple and secure egress policies by hostname in Cloudflare’s SASE platform

2025-07-07

Cloudflare Gateway Cloudflare One Egress SASE Zero Trust Access Control Lists (ACLs) Categories Hostnames

Cloudflare's SASE platform now offers egress policies by hostname, domain, content category, and application in open beta. ...

Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation!

2025-07-01

Pay Per Crawl AI Bots AI

It’s Content Independence Day: Cloudflare, along with a majority of the world's leading publishers and AI companies, is changing the default to block AI crawlers unless they pay creators for content. ...

Matthew Prince

The crawl before the fall… of referrals: understanding AI’s impact on content providers

2025-07-01

Pay Per Crawl Radar Internet Traffic AI Bots

Cloudflare Radar now shows how often a given AI model sends traffic to a site relative to how often it crawls that site. This helps site owners make decisions about which AI bots to allow or block. ...

Control content use for AI training with Cloudflare’s managed robots.txt and blocking for monetized content

2025-07-01

Pay Per Crawl AI Bots Impact

Cloudflare is making it easier for publishers and content creators of all sizes to prevent their content from being scraped for AI training by managing robots.txt on their behalf. ...

Introducing pay per crawl: Enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access

2025-07-01

Pay Per Crawl AI Bots Bots AI Bot Management

Pay per crawl is a new feature to allow content creators to charge AI crawlers for access to their content. ...

From Googlebot to GPTBot: who’s crawling your site in 2025

2025-07-01

Pay Per Crawl AI Radar AI Bots Bots

From May 2024 to May 2025, crawler traffic rose 18%, with GPTBot growing 305% and Googlebot 96%. ...

Message Signatures are now part of our Verified Bots Program, simplifying bot authentication

2025-07-01

Pay Per Crawl Research Bots Bot Management AI Bots Cryptography

Bots can start authenticating to Cloudflare using public key cryptography, preventing them from being spoofed and allowing origins to have confidence in their identity. ...

Celebrate Micro-Small, and Medium-sized Enterprises Day with Cloudflare

2025-06-27

Security Developers Free Impact

To celebrate United Nations Micro, Small, and Medium Sized Enterprises Day, Cloudflare is sharing success stories of small businesses building and growing on our platform. ...

Russian Internet users are unable to access the open Internet

2025-06-26

Internet Shutdown Russia Policy & Legal

Since June 9, 2025, Internet users located in Russia and connecting to the open Internet have been throttled by Russian Internet Service Providers (ISPs). ...

Orange Me2eets: We made an end-to-end encrypted video calling app and it was easy

2025-06-26

Research Privacy Encryption Video Cloudflare Realtime

Orange Meets, our open-source video calling web application, now supports end-to-end encryption using the MLS protocol with continuous group key agreement. ...

Building agents with OpenAI and Cloudflare’s Agents SDK

2025-06-25

AI Agents Cloudflare Workers Developers

We’re building AI agents where logic and reasoning are handled by OpenAI’s Agents SDK, and execution happens across Cloudflare's global network via Cloudflare’s Agents SDK. ...

Containers are available in public beta for simple, global, and programmable compute

2025-06-24

Cloudflare Workers Containers Developers AI

Cloudflare Containers are now available in public beta. Deploy simple, global, and programmable containers alongside your Workers. ...

Everything you need to know about NIST’s new guidance in “SP 1800-35: Implementing a Zero Trust Architecture”

2025-06-19

Zero Trust Cloudflare Zero Trust Public Sector NIST Compliance Security

We read NIST’s new guidance on “Implementing a Zero-Trust Architecture” so that you don’t have to. Read this to get the key points on the newly-released NIST Special Publication 1800-35. ...

Defending the Internet: how Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack

2025-06-19

DDoS DDoS Reports

In mid-May 2025, Cloudflare blocked the largest DDoS attack ever recorded: a staggering 7.3 terabits per second (Tbps). ...

Omer Yoachimik

Cloudflare Log Explorer is now GA, providing native observability and forensics

2025-06-18

R2 Storage SIEM Product News Connectivity Cloud Analytics Developer Platform Developers Security

We are happy to announce the General Availability of Cloudflare Log Explorer, a powerful product designed to bring observability and forensics capabilities directly into your Cloudflare dashboard. ...

Connect any React application to an MCP server in three lines of code

2025-06-18

AI Agents MCP Cloudflare Workers Developers

We're open-sourcing use-mcp, a React library that connects to any MCP server in just 3 lines of code, as well as our AI Playground, a complete chat interface that can connect to remote MCP servers. ...

Cloudflare service outage June 12, 2025

2025-06-12

Outage Post Mortem

Multiple Cloudflare services, including Workers KV, Access, WARP and the Cloudflare dashboard, experienced an outage for up to 2 hours and 28 minutes on June 12, 2025. ...

Celebrating 11 years of Project Galileo’s global impact

2025-06-12

Project Galileo Impact Security

June 2025 marks the 11th anniversary of Project Galileo, Cloudflare’s effort to protect vulnerable public interest organizations from cyber threats. ...

Jocelyn Woolbright

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