At Cloudflare, PostgreSQL and ClickHouse are our standard databases for transactional and analytical workloads. If you’re part of a team building products with configuration in our Dashboard, chances are you’re using PostgreSQL. It’s fast, versatile, reliable, and backed by over 30 years of development and real-world use. It has been a foundational part of our […]
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Introducing simple and secure egress policies by hostname in Cloudflare’s SASE platform
Cloudflare’s SASE platform is on a mission to strengthen our platform-wide support for hostname- and domain-based policies. This mission is being driven by enthusiastic demands from our customers, and boosted along the way by several interesting engineering challenges. Today, we’re taking a deep dive into the first milestone of this mission, which we recently released […]
Message Signatures are now part of our Verified Bots Program, simplifying bot authentication
As a site owner, how do you know which bots to allow on your site, and which you’d like to block? Existing identification methods rely on a combination of IP address range (which may be shared by other services, or change over time) and user-agent header (easily spoofable). These have limitations and deficiencies. In our […]
Introducing pay per crawl: enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access
A changing landscape of consumption Many publishers, content creators and website owners currently feel like they have a binary choice — either leave the front door wide open for AI to consume everything they create, or create their own walled garden. But what if there was another way? At Cloudflare, we started from a simple […]
Control content use for AI training with Cloudflare’s managed robots.txt and blocking for monetized content
Cloudflare is giving all website owners two new tools to easily control whether AI bots are allowed to access their content for model training. First, customers can let Cloudflare create and manage a robots.txt file, creating the appropriate entries to let crawlers know not to access their site for AI training. Second, all customers can […]
Celebrate Micro-Small, and Medium-sized Enterprises Day with Cloudflare
On June 27, the United Nations celebrates Micro-, Small, and Medium-sized Enterprises Day (MSME) to recognize the critical role these businesses play in the global economy and economic development. According to the World Bank and the UN, small and medium-sized businesses make up about 90 percent of all businesses, between 50-70 percent of global employment, […]
Orange Me2eets: We made an end-to-end encrypted video calling app and it was easy
Developing a new video conferencing application often begins with a peer-to-peer setup using WebRTC, facilitating direct data exchange between clients. While effective for small demonstrations, this method encounters scalability hurdles with increased participants. The data transmission load for each client escalates significantly in proportion to the number of users, as each client is required to […]
Defending the Internet: how Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack
In mid-May 2025, Cloudflare blocked the largest DDoS attack ever recorded: a staggering 7.3 terabits per second (Tbps). This comes shortly after the publication of our DDoS threat report for 2025 Q1 on April 27, 2025, where we highlighted attacks reaching 6.5 Tbps and 4.8 billion packets per second (pps). The 7.3 Tbps attack is […]
Everything you need to know about NIST’s new guidance in “SP 1800-35: Implementing a Zero Trust Architecture”
For decades, the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been guiding industry efforts through the many publications in its Computer Security Resource Center. NIST has played an especially important role in the adoption of Zero Trust architecture, through its series of publications that began with NIST SP 800-207: Zero Trust Architecture, […]
Cloudflare Log Explorer is now GA, providing native observability and forensics
We are thrilled to announce the General Availability of Cloudflare Log Explorer, a powerful new product designed to bring observability and forensics capabilities directly into your Cloudflare dashboard. Built on the foundation of Cloudflare’s vast global network, Log Explorer leverages the unique position of our platform to provide a comprehensive and contextualized view of your […]
