500 Tbps of capacity: 16 years of scaling our global network
2026-04-10
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
2024-10-30
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
2024-07-04
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
2021-09-16
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. ...