How Cloudflare Cloud Email Security protects against the evolving threat of QR phishing04/17/2024Learn about how Cloudflare's Cloud Email Security tackles QR phishing, why attackers favor QR codes, and Cloudflare's proactive defense strategy against evolving threats...Continue reading »Pete Pang
DDoS threat report for 2024 Q104/16/2024DDoS ReportsMiraiCloudflare RadarDDoSAttacksDNS FloodTrends2024 started with a bang. Cloudflare’s autonomous systems mitigated over 4.5 million DDoS attacks in the first quarter of the year — a 50% increase compared to the previous year. Read the full coverage...Omer YoachimikJorge Pacheco
Why I joined Cloudflare as Chief Partner Officer04/15/2024Life at CloudflarePartnersTom Evans is joining Cloudflare as our first ever Chief Partner Officer, continuing a great career in scaling channel partner programs in the tech sector. Read more about why he’s excited about his new role in this blog post...Tom Evans
An Internet traffic analysis during Iran's April 13, 2024, attack on Israel04/14/2024Cloudflare RadarIsraelInternet TrafficTrendsOn April 13, 2024, Iran launched a retaliatory attack on Israel. We examined its potential impact on Internet traffic and attacks. While there were some shifts in traffic, we haven't observed any large-scale cyberattacks on Israeli domains protected by Cloudflare....João Tomé
Improving authoritative DNS with the official release of Foundation DNS04/12/2024DNSFoundation DNSProduct NewsWe are launching Foundation DNS – our new enterprise-grade authoritative DNS offering. As our new enterprise authoritative DNS offering, Foundation DNS was designed to enhance the reliability, security, flexibility, and analytics of our authoritative DNS service...Hannes GerhartChris Ward
How we ensure Cloudflare customers aren't affected by Let's Encrypt's certificate chain change04/12/2024SecurityApplication ServicesTLSSSLCertificate AuthorityDeep DiveLet’s Encrypt’s cross-signed chain will be expiring in September. This will affect legacy devices with outdated trust stores (Android versions 7.1.1 or older). To prevent this change from impacting customers, Cloudflare will shift Let’s Encrypt certificates upon renewal to use a different CA...Dina Kozlov
Total eclipse of the Internet: traffic impacts in Mexico, the US, and Canada04/09/2024Cloudflare RadarTrendsInternet TrafficCloudflare’s data shows a clear impact on Internet traffic from Mexico to the US, and Canada, following the path of totality of the total solar eclipse that occurred on April 8, 2024 ...João Tomé
Major data center power failure (again): Cloudflare Code Orange tested04/08/2024Post MortemOutageJust four months after a complete power outage at a critical data center we were hit with the exact same scenario. Here’s how we did this time, and what’s next...Matthew PrinceJohn Graham-CummingJeremy Hartman
Developer Week 2024 wrap-up04/08/2024Developer WeekDevelopersProduct NewsCloudflare WorkersCloudflare PagesRate LimitingAPIR2 StorageD1Developer Week 2024 has officially come to a close. Here’s a quick recap of the announcements and in-depth technical explorations that went out last week...Phillip Jones
Cloudflare acquires Baselime to expand serverless application observability capabilities04/05/2024Developer WeekDevelopersDeveloper PlatformProduct NewsCloudflare WorkersObservabilityAcquisitionsToday, we’re thrilled to announce that Cloudflare has acquired Baselime, a serverless observability company...Boris TaneRita Kozlov
Browser Rendering API GA, rolling out Cloudflare Snippets, SWR, and bringing Workers for Platforms to all users04/05/2024Developer WeekDevelopersDeveloper PlatformTurnstileApplication ServicesProduct NewsGeneral AvailabilityCloudflare WorkersBrowser Rendering API is now available to all paid Workers customers with improved session management...Tanushree SharmaCelso MartinhoNikita CanoMatt BullockTim Kornhammar
Cloudflare acquires PartyKit to allow developers to build real-time multi-user applications04/05/2024Developer WeekAcquisitionsCloudflare WorkersAIDurable ObjectsWe're thrilled to announce that PartyKit, a trailblazer in enabling developers to craft ambitious real-time, collaborative, multiplayer applications, is now a part of Cloudflare...Sunil PaiRita Kozlov
Blazing fast development with full-stack frameworks and Cloudflare04/05/2024Developer WeekDevelopersDeveloper PlatformFull StackWranglerMiniflareYou can now use your framework’s development server while accessing D1 databases, R2 object stores, AI models, and more. Iterate locally in milliseconds to build sophisticated web apps that run on Cloudflare...Igor MinarDario PiotrowiczJames CulveyhousePeter Bacon Darwin
We've added JavaScript-native RPC to Cloudflare Workers04/05/2024Developer WeekDevelopersCloudflare WorkersCloudflare Workers now features a built-in RPC (Remote Procedure Call) system for use in Worker-to-Worker and Worker-to-Durable Object communication, with absolutely minimal boilerplate. We've designed an RPC system so expressive that calling a remote service can feel like using a library...Kenton Varda
Community Update: empowering startups building on Cloudflare and creating an inclusive community04/05/2024Developer WeekDevelopersCommunityWe’re excited to close out Developer Week by sharing updates on our Workers Launchpad program, our latest Developer Challenge, and the work we’re doing to ensure our community spaces – like our Discord and Community forums – are safe and inclusive for all developers...Ricky RobinettVeronica MarinChristopher Rotas
New tools for production safety — Gradual deployments, Source maps, Rate Limiting, and new SDKs04/04/2024Developer WeekCloudflare WorkersRate LimitingSDKObservabilityToday we are announcing five updates that put more power in your hands – Gradual Deployments, Source mapped stack traces in Tail Workers, a new Rate Limiting API, brand-new API SDKs, and updates to Durable Objects – each built with mission-critical production services in mind...Tanushree SharmaJacob Bednarz
What’s new with Cloudflare Media: updates for Calls, Stream, and Images04/04/2024Developer WeekCloudflare StreamLive StreamingCloudflare ImagesImage OptimizationImage ResizingImage StorageCloudflare CallsDevelopersWith Cloudflare Calls in open beta, you can build real-time, serverless video and audio applications. Cloudflare Stream lets your viewers instantly clip from ongoing streams...Deanna LamTaylor SmithZaid Farooqui
Announcing Pages support for monorepos, wrangler.toml, database integrations and more!04/04/2024Developer WeekCloudflare PagesWranglerCloudflare WorkersToday, we’re launching four improvements to Pages that bring functionality previously restricted to Workers, with the goal of unifying the development experience between the two. Support for monorepos, wrangler.toml, new additions to Next.js support and database integrations...Nevi ShahAdam MurrayIgor Minar
Cloudflare Calls: millions of cascading trees all the way down04/04/2024Developer WeekDevelopersCloudflare CallsWebRTCProduct NewsCloudflare Calls is a serverless SFU and TURN service running at Cloudflare’s edge. It’s now in open beta and costs $0.05/ real-time GB. It’s 100% anycast WebRTC...Renan DincerRachel ChenFelipe Astroza ArayaKevin KippKazi Najib
R2 adds event notifications, support for migrations from Google Cloud Storage, and an infrequent access storage tier04/03/2024Developer WeekDevelopersR2 StorageProduct NewsDeveloper PlatformWe’re excited to announce three new features for Cloudflare R2: event notifications, support for migrations from Google Cloud Storage, and an infrequent access storage tier...Matt DeBoardSiddhant SinhaMengqi ChenErin Thames
Improving Cloudflare Workers and D1 developer experience with Prisma ORM04/03/2024Developer WeekDevelopersDeveloper PlatformD1PrismaPartnersTogether, Cloudflare and Prisma make it easier than ever to deploy globally available apps with a focus on developer experience. To further that goal, Prisma ORM now natively supports Cloudflare Workers and D1 in Preview...Jon Harrell (Guest Author)