500 Tbps of capacity: 16 years of scaling our global network
Cloudflare’s global network has officially crossed 500 Tbps of external capacity, enough to route more than 20% of the web and absorb the largest DDoS attacks ever recorded.
Cloudflare’s perspective of the October 30, 2024, OVHcloud outage
On October 30, 2024, cloud hosting provider OVHcloud (AS16276) suffered a brief but significant outage. Within this post, we review Cloudflare’s perspective on this outage.
Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 incident on June 27, 2024
On June 27, 2024, a small number of users globally may have noticed that 1.1.1.1 was unreachable or degraded. The root cause was a mix of BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) hijacking and a route leak
Cloudflare Backbone: A Fast Lane on the Busy Internet Highway
It’s important that our network continues to help bring improved performance and resiliency to the Internet. To accomplish this, we built our own backbone.
