Welcome to Birthday Week 2022

2022 marks Cloudflare’s 12th birthday, and each day this week we will announce new products and host fascinating discussions with guests including product experts, customers, and industry peers.

Cloudflare’s 2022 Annual Founders’ Letter

Cloudflare launched on September 27, 2010. This week we'll celebrate our 12th birthday. As has become our tradition, we'll be announcing a series of products that we think of as our gifts back to the Internet

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What we served up for the last Birthday Week before we're a teenager

Cloudflare's 12th birthday week: 36 announcements ranging from SIM cards to post quantum encryption via hardware keys and so much more. Here’s a review of everything we announced this week

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Updates and announcements

The First Zero Trust SIM

We’re announcing the first Zero Trust SIM: the next major part of Cloudflare One, combining both software and hardware layers to rethink mobile device security for organizations.

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Securing the Internet of Things

We’ve been defending customers from Internet of Things botnets for years now, and it’s time to turn the tides: we’re bringing the same security behind our Zero Trust platform to IoT.

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Bringing Zero Trust to Mobile Network Operators

Better together: 5G mobile networks and Cloudflare’s all-in-one SASE platform

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Cloudflare named a Leader in WAF by Forrester

Forrester has recognised Cloudflare as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Web Application Firewalls, Q3 2022 report. The report evaluated 12 Web Application Firewall (WAF) providers on 24 criteria across current offering, strategy and market presence.

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The world’s leading venture capital firms commit $1.25 BILLION to back startups built on Cloudflare Workers

Building and scaling a startup is hard work. Apply to the $1BN the Workers Launchpad funding program for an opportunity to pitch leading VCs and other perks.

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Introducing workerd: The Open Source Workers Runtime

workerd is the JavaScript/Wasm runtime code that powers Cloudflare Workers, now open source under the Apache 2.0 license.

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Build real-time video and audio apps on the world’s most interconnected network

We are announcing Cloudflare Calls, a new product that lets developers build real-time audio and video apps.

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Cloudflare Queues: globally distributed queues without the egress fees

Cloudflare Queues is a message queuing service that allows applications to reliably send and receive messages using Cloudflare Workers.

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D1: Our Quest to Simplify Databases

Learn about the D1 experience today, what the team is currently working on and what’s coming up!

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WebRTC live streaming to unlimited viewers, with sub-second latency

Cloudflare Stream now supports live streaming over WebRTC to unlimited concurrent viewers, using open standards WHIP and WHEP, with zero dependencies or client SDKs necessary.

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Build your next startup on Cloudflare with our comprehensive Startup Plan, v2.0

The Startup Plan now has an expanded product basket and broader eligibility criteria, which means more startups now qualify for the program.

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Introducing Cache Rules: precision caching at your fingertips

We have spent the last ten years learning how customers use Page Rules to customize their cached content, and it’s clear the time is ripe for evolving rules-based caching on Cloudflare.

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Introducing Configuration Rules

Configuration Rules is the new and improved way for Cloudflare customers to control and manipulate features that are enabled or disabled for specific requests on their zone.

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Where to? Introducing Origin Rules

Origin Rules is a dedicated product for ‘where does this traffic go where it leaves Cloudflare.’ Customers are able to match on an HTTP request using filters and override the host, port, SNI, and the origin a request resolves to.

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The future of Page Rules

Learn about four new products that will eventually replace Page Rules by putting more power into the hands of users.

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Dynamic URL Redirects: 301 to the future

With Dynamic redirects, users can redirect visitors to another webpage or website based upon hundreds of options such as the visitor's country of origin or language, without having to write a single line of code.

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Announcing Turnstile, a user-friendly, privacy-preserving alternative to CAPTCHA

Any website can use a simple API to replace CAPTCHAs with our invisible alternative, whether they’re on the Cloudflare network or not.

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Monitor you own network with free network flow analytics from Cloudflare

Cloudflare is excited to announce that we are releasing a free version of Magic Networking Monitoring (previously called Flow Based Monitoring). Magic Network Monitoring receives network flow data from a customer’s router(s) and provides network traffic analytics via Cloudflare’s dashboard.

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Introducing Cloudflare’s free Botnet Threat Feed for Service Providers

We’re pleased to introduce Cloudflare’s free Botnet Threat Feed for Service Providers. This includes all types of service providers, ranging from hosting providers to ISPs and cloud compute providers.

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Private by design: building privacy-preserving products with Cloudflare's Privacy Edge

Introducing Privacy Edge – a collection of products that make it easier for site owners and developers to protect their users’ privacy by default.

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We've shipped so many products the Cloudflare dashboard needed its own search engine

Today we’re proud to announce our beta release of quick search for the Cloudflare dashboard, our first ever cross-dashboard search tool to help you navigate our products and features.

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The (hardware) key to making phishing defense seamless with Cloudflare Zero Trust and Yubico

Announcing a new collaboration with Yubico, to remove any barriers for organizations of any size to deploying hardware keys.

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How Cloudflare implemented hardware keys with FIDO2 and Zero Trust to prevent phishing

Adopting a phishing resistant second factor, like a YubiKey with FIDO2, is the number one way to prevent phishing attacks. Cloudflare has used phishing resistant second factors only since February of 2021, and these were the steps we took to accomplish that.

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Worried about unsafe links in emails? Email Link Isolation is here to help

There’s always a cat and mouse game between hackers and security companies. New attacks try to weaponize website links after emails have been delivered to mailboxes, and Email Link Isolation is here to revolutionize protection against those attacks.

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Now all customers can share access to their Cloudflare account with Role Based Access Controls

Role Based Access Controls are now available for every plan!

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Back in 2017 we gave you Unmetered DDoS Mitigation, here's a birthday gift: Unmetered Rate Limiting

From today, Free, Pro and Business plans include Rate Limiting rules without additional charges.

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Gateway + CASB: alphabetti spaghetti that spells better SaaS security

Now that Cloudflare CASB is Generally Available, let’s take a look at how users have been leveraging other Cloudflare Zero Trust products with CASB, starting with Gateway.

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Project A11Y: how we upgraded Cloudflare’s dashboard to adhere to industry accessibility standards

At Cloudflare, we believe the internet should be accessible to everyone. And today, we’re happy to announce a more inclusive Cloudflare dashboard experience: adherence to the industry accessibility standards, including WCAG 2.1 AA and section 508 compliance.

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Lights, Camera, Action! Business and Pro customers get bundled streaming video

Beginning October 27, 2022, if you have a Business or Pro subscription, you will receive a complimentary allocation of Cloudflare Stream.

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Don't roll your own high cardinality analytics, use Workers Analytics Engine

Join our open beta and start collecting telemetry about anything using Cloudflare Workers today!

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The home page for Internet insights: Cloudflare Radar 2.0

Cloudflare Radar makes Internet trends, patterns and insights available to everyone, and we’re now making them even easier to find, understand and share.

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The status page the Internet needs: Cloudflare Radar Outage Center

The new Cloudflare Radar Outage Center (CROC), launched as part of Radar 2.0, is intended to be an archive of information about Internet outages observed by Cloudflare, organized by location, type, date, etc.

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Goodbye, Alexa. Hello, Cloudflare Radar Domain Rankings

Today, we are launching a new dataset called Radar Rankings, where we identify the top most popular domains that reflect how people use the Internet globally and per country.

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Introducing post-quantum Cloudflare Tunnel

Every connection we make post-quantum secure, we remove one opportunity for compromise: that's why we are announcing post-quantum Cloudflare Tunnel to help you secure every connection to our network

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Defending against future threats: Cloudflare goes post-quantum

The future of a private and secure Internet is at stake; that is why today we have enabled post-quantum cryptography support for all our customers

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Automatic (secure) transmission: taking the pain out of origin connection security

Today we’re excited to announce that we will soon be offering a zero-configuration option for security on Cloudflare. If we find that we can automatically upgrade the security connection between Cloudflare and a user’s origin, we will.

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