The Cloudflare Blog

July 14th, 2025, Cloudflare made a change to our service topologies that caused an outage for 1.1.1.1 on the edge, causing downtime for 62 minutes for customers using the 1.1.1.1 public DNS Resolver.

Gartner has recognized Cloudflare as a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SASE Platforms report.

June was the busiest month for DDoS attacks in 2025 Q2, accounting for nearly 38% of all observed activity.

This blog post is the first of a series, in which we share our journey in redesigning Quicksilver — Cloudflare’s distributed key-value store that serves over 3 billion keys per second globally.

Cloudflare chose TimescaleDB to power its Digital Experience Monitoring and Zero Trust Analytics products.

Cloudflare's SASE platform now offers egress policies by hostname, domain, content category, and application in open beta.

It’s Content Independence Day: Cloudflare, along with a majority of the world's leading publishers and AI companies, is changing the default to block AI crawlers unless they pay creators for content.

Bots can start authenticating to Cloudflare using public key cryptography, preventing them from being spoofed and allowing origins to have confidence in their identity.

From May 2024 to May 2025, crawler traffic rose 18%, with GPTBot growing 305% and Googlebot 96%.

Pay per crawl is a new feature to allow content creators to charge AI crawlers for access to their content. 

Cloudflare is making it easier for publishers and content creators of all sizes to prevent their content from being scraped for AI training by managing robots.txt on their behalf.

Cloudflare Radar now shows how often a given AI model sends traffic to a site relative to how often it crawls that site. This helps site owners make decisions about which AI bots to allow or block.

To celebrate United Nations Micro, Small, and Medium Sized Enterprises Day, Cloudflare is sharing success stories of small businesses building and growing on our platform.

Since June 9, 2025, Internet users located in Russia and connecting to the open Internet have been throttled by Russian Internet Service Providers (ISPs).

Orange Meets, our open-source video calling web application, now supports end-to-end encryption using the MLS protocol with continuous group key agreement.

We’re building AI agents where logic and reasoning are handled by OpenAI’s Agents SDK, and execution happens across Cloudflare's global network via Cloudflare’s Agents SDK.

Cloudflare Containers are now available in public beta. Deploy simple, global, and programmable containers alongside your Workers.

In mid-May 2025, Cloudflare blocked the largest DDoS attack ever recorded: a staggering 7.3 terabits per second (Tbps).

We read NIST’s new guidance on “Implementing a Zero-Trust Architecture” so that you don’t have to. Read this to get the key points on the newly-released NIST Special Publication 1800-35.

We're open-sourcing use-mcp, a React library that connects to any MCP server in just 3 lines of code, as well as our AI Playground, a complete chat interface that can connect to remote MCP servers.