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Switching to Cloudflare can cut emissions by up to 96% | Switching enterprise network services from on-prem to Cloudflare can cut related carbon emissions by up to 96%. |
Cloudflare Trace | Use Cloudflare Trace to see which rules and settings are invoked when an HTTP request for your site goes through our network. |
Cloudflare Fonts | Introducing Cloudflare Fonts. Enhance privacy and performance for websites using Google Fonts by loading fonts directly from the Cloudflare network. |
How Cloudflare intelligently routes traffic | Technical deep dive that explains how Cloudflare uses machine learning to intelligently route traffic through our vast network. |
Low Latency Live Streaming | Cloudflare Stream’s LL-HLS support is now in open beta. You can deliver video to your audience faster, reducing the latency a viewer may experience on their player to as little as 3 seconds. |
Account permissions for all | Cloudflare account permissions are now available to all customers, not just Enterprise. In addition, we’ll show you how you can use them and best practices. |
Incident Alerts | Customers can subscribe to Cloudflare Incident Alerts and choose when to get notified based on affected products and level of impact. |
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Welcome to the connectivity cloud | Cloudflare is the world’s first connectivity cloud — the modern way to connect and protect your cloud, networks, applications and users. |
Amazon’s $2bn IPv4 tax — and how you can avoid paying it | Amazon will begin taxing their customers $43 for IPv4 addresses, so Cloudflare will give those \$43 back in the form of credits to bypass that tax. |
Sippy | Minimize egress fees by using Sippy to incrementally migrate your data from AWS to R2. |
Cloudflare Images | All Image Resizing features will be available under Cloudflare Images and we’re simplifying pricing to make it more predictable and reliable. |
Traffic anomalies and notifications with Cloudflare Radar | Cloudflare Radar will be publishing anomalous traffic events for countries and Autonomous Systems (ASes). |
Detecting Internet outages | Deep dive into how Cloudflare detects Internet outages, the challenges that come with it, and our approach to overcome these problems. |
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The best place on Region: Earth for inference | Now available: Workers AI, a serverless GPU cloud for AI, Vectorize so you can build your own vector databases, and AI Gateway to help manage costs and observability of your AI applications. Cloudflare delivers the best infrastructure for next-gen AI applications, supported by partnerships with NVIDIA, Microsoft, Hugging Face, Databricks, and Meta. |
Workers AI | Launching Workers AI — 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. |
Partnering with Hugging Face | Cloudflare is partnering with Hugging Face to make AI models more accessible and affordable to users. |
Vectorize | Cloudflare’s vector database, designed to allow engineers to build full-stack, AI-powered applications entirely on Cloudflare's global network — available in Beta. |
AI Gateway | 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, saving you engineering time so you can focus on what you're building. |
You can now use WebGPU in Cloudflare Workers | Developers can now use WebGPU in Cloudflare Workers. Learn more about why WebGPUs are important, why we’re offering them to customers, and what’s next. |
What AI companies are building with Cloudflare | Many AI companies are using Cloudflare to build next generation applications. Learn more about what they’re building and how Cloudflare is helping them on their journey. |
Writing poems using LLama 2 on Workers AI | Want to write a poem using AI? Learn how to run your own AI chatbot in 14 lines of code, running on Cloudflare’s global network. |
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Hyperdrive | Cloudflare launches a new product, Hyperdrive, that makes existing regional databases much faster by dramatically speeding up queries that are made from Cloudflare Workers. |
D1 Open Beta | 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. |
Pages Build Caching | Build cache is a feature designed to reduce your build times by caching and reusing previously computed project components — now available in Beta. |
Running serverless Puppeteer with Workers and Durable Objects | Introducing the Browser Rendering API, which enables developers to utilize the Puppeteer browser automation library within Workers, eliminating the need for serverless browser automation system setup and maintenance |
Cloudflare partners with Microsoft to power their Edge Secure Network | We partnered with Microsoft Edge to provide a fast and secure VPN, right in the browser. Users don’t have to install anything new or understand complex concepts to get the latest in network-level privacy: Edge Secure Network VPN is available on the latest consumer version of Microsoft Edge in most markets, and automatically comes with 5GB of data. |
Re-introducing the Cloudflare Workers playground | We are revamping the playground that demonstrates the power of Workers, along with new development tooling, and the ability to share your playground code and deploy instantly to Cloudflare’s global network |
Cloudflare integrations marketplace expands | Introducing the newest additions to Cloudflare’s Integration Marketplace. Now available: Sentry, Momento and Turso. |
A Socket API that works across Javascript runtimes — announcing WinterCG spec and polyfill for connect() | Engineers from Cloudflare and Vercel have published a draft specification of the connect() sockets API for review by the community, along with a Node.js compatible polyfill for the connect() API that developers can start using. |
New Workers pricing | 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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Post Quantum Cryptography goes GA | Cloudflare is rolling out post-quantum cryptography support to customers, services, and internal systems to proactively protect against advanced attacks. |
Encrypted Client Hello | Announcing a contribution that helps improve 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. |
Email Retro Scan | Cloudflare customers can now scan messages within their Office 365 Inboxes for threats. The Retro Scan will let you look back seven days to see what threats your current email security tool has missed. |
Turnstile is Generally Available | Turnstile, Cloudflare’s CAPTCHA replacement, is now generally available and available for free to everyone and includes unlimited use. |
AI crawler bots | Any Cloudflare user, on any plan, can choose specific categories of bots that they want to allow or block, including AI crawlers. We are also recommending a new standard to robots.txt that will make it easier for websites to clearly direct how AI bots can and can’t crawl. |
Detecting zero-days before zero-day | Deep dive into Cloudflare’s approach and ongoing research into detecting novel web attack vectors in our WAF before they are seen by a security researcher. |
Privacy Preserving Metrics | Deep dive into the fundamental concepts behind the Distributed Aggregation Protocol (DAP) protocol with examples on how we’ve implemented it into Daphne, our open source aggregator server. |
Post-quantum cryptography to origin | We are rolling out post-quantum cryptography support for outbound connections to origins and Cloudflare Workers fetch() calls. Learn more about what we enabled, how we rolled it out in a safe manner, and how you can add support to your origin server today. |
Network performance update | Cloudflare’s updated benchmark results regarding network performance plus a dive into the tools and processes that we use to monitor and improve our network performance. |
Targum (my startup) was one of the first AI companies (w/ @jamdotdev ) in the Cloudflare workers launchpad!— Alex Volkov (@altryne) September 27, 2023
In return to tons of stuff we got from CF 🙏 they asked for feedback, and my main one was, let me do everything end to end on CF, I don't want to rent GPU servers… https://t.co/0j2ZymXpsL
i hate @Cloudflare launch week— Dax (@thdxr) September 29, 2023
most launch weeks are underwhelming
cloudflare always makes me rethink everything i’m doing