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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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History of Birthday Week

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2021

Email Security
Web3
Registrar for Everyone
R2 Announced
Dark Mode
Cloudflare TV as a service

2020

Cloudflare turns 10!
Cron Triggers
Durable Objects
Web Analytics
Cloudflare Radar
API Shield
Automatic Platform Optimizations

2019

WARP Plus
Browser Insights
Bot Defend Mode
Workers Sites
HTTP3

2018

Registrar
Bandwidth Alliance
QUIC support
Workers KV
ESNI

2017

Unmetered DDoS mitigation
Cloudflare Stream
Geo Key Manager
Workers

2016

Rebranding effort and CloudFlare becomes Cloudflare, along with a new logo and website. Also introduced early access to managed dedicated SSL certificates, global load balancing and rate limiting.

2015

Expansion to China and announcement of our partnership with Baidu to bring 17 new data centers online in mainland China.

2014

Launch of Universal SSL for all Cloudflare customers ensuring that every website supported on our network is secure.

2011

Cloudflare launches a free automatic IPv6 Gateway for all users to ease their transition to IPv6.

2010

Cloudflare officially launched in 2010 at TechCrunch Disrupt with 1,000 websites subscribed during the initial beta.