CDN – Noise

DIY BYOIP: a new way to Bring Your Own IP prefixes to Cloudflare

Ash Pallarito — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 14:00:00 +0000

Announcing a new self-serve API for Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP), giving customers unprecedented control and flexibility to onboard, manage, and use their own IP prefixes with Cloudflare's services.

15 years of helping build a better Internet: a look back at Birthday Week 2025

Nikita Cano — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 14:00:00 +0000

Rust-powered core systems, post-quantum upgrades, developer access for students, PlanetScale integration, open-source partnerships, and our biggest internship program ever — 1,111 interns in 2026.

Automatically Secure: how we upgraded 6,000,000 domains by default to get ready for the Quantum Future

Alex Krivit — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 14:00:00 +0000

After a year since we started enabling Automatic SSL/TLS, we want to talk about these results, why they matter, and how we’re preparing for the next leap in Internet security.

Resolving a request smuggling vulnerability in Pingora

Edward Wang — Thu, 22 May 2025 13:00:00 +0000

Cloudflare patched a vulnerability (CVE-2025-4366) in the Pingora OSS framework, which exposed users of the framework and Cloudflare CDN’s free tier to potential request smuggling attacks.

Your IPs, your rules: enabling more efficient address space usage

Mark Rodgers — Mon, 19 May 2025 13:00:00 +0000

IPv4 is expensive, and moving network resources around is hard. Previously, when customers wanted to use multiple Cloudflare services, they had to bring a new address range.

Cloudflare Snippets are now Generally Available

Nikita Cano — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 14:00:00 +0000

Cloudflare Snippets are now generally available, enabling fast, cost-free JavaScript-based HTTP traffic modifications across all paid plans.

5 Ways to Use Event Notifications to Advance Your Media Better, Faster

Jeremy Milk — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 17:00:00 +0000

If you're using Backblaze for content and media tasks, Event Notifications can automate and speed up workflows. Here are five ways.

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Cloudflare incident on September 17, 2024

Joe Abley — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 14:00:00 +0000

On September 17, 2024, during planned routine maintenance, Cloudflare stopped announcing 15 IPv4 prefixes, affecting some Business plan websites for approximately one hour. During this time, IPv4 traffic for these customers would not have reached Cloudflare and users attempting to connect to websites using addresses within those prefixes would have received errors.

Simplify cloud routing and object storage configurations with Cloud Connector

Nikita Cano — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 13:00:18 +0000

Meet Cloud Connector — a new free product to simplify your cloud routing and object storage configurations. Say goodbye to frustrating Host Header workarounds and hello to protecting your assets, accelerating applications, and routing your traffic between multiple cloud providers seamlessly

Automate Your Data Workflows with Backblaze B2 Event Notifications

Bala Krishna Gangisetty — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Announcing Backblaze Event Notifications, designed to give businesses the freedom to build automated workloads across the different best-of-breed cloud platforms. Available today in private preview.

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Managing the Media Tidal Wave: Backlight iconik’s 2024 Media Report

Jennifer Newman — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 16:15:00 +0000

If you're feeling like the media assets you're managing just keep growing, you're not wrong. Read some key stats from Backlight iconik's latest media report, and use them to consider solutions for media management in the cloud.

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Navigating Cloud Storage: What is Latency and Why Does It Matter?

Amrit Singh — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 16:28:41 +0000

Latency is an important factor impacting performance and user experience. Let's talk about what it is and some ways to get better performance.

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Cloud Egress Fees: What They Are And How To Reduce Them

Molly Clancy — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 16:48:27 +0000

Traditional cloud storage pricing models come with complexity—by which we mean fees. Today, let's talk about what egress fees are and where they fit into your cloud storage strategy.

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Cloud Storage Performance: The Metrics that Matter

Kari Rivas — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 16:05:00 +0000

Latency, throughput, availability, and durability are the main factors that affect cloud performance. Let's talk about how.

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The Power of Specialized Cloud Providers: A Game Changer for SaaS Companies

Amrit Singh — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 16:40:34 +0000

Cloud-based tech stacks have moved beyond a one-size-fits all approach. Here's how specialized cloud providers can help your SaaS company customize its tech stack.

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The Free Credit Trap: Building SaaS Infrastructure for Long-Term Sustainability

Amrit Singh — Tue, 23 May 2023 16:29:10 +0000

Many businesses use AWS's free cloud credits to create their cloud-based infrastructure. But, those AWS bills are no fun. Here are some ways you can leverage free credits without getting locked into AWS long term.

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CDN Bandwidth Fees: What You Need to Know

Molly Clancy — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 16:08:18 +0000

If you're delivering seamless, media-rich experiences, then you're likely using a CDN. Let's talk about some of the fees you may run into.

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Backblaze Joins the CDN Alliance

Elton Carneiro — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 17:28:11 +0000

Backblaze joins the CDN Alliance, a community of industry leaders focused on ensuring that the content delivery network (CDN) industry is evolving in a way that best serves businesses distributing content of every type around the world.

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AWS CloudFront vs. bunny.net: How Do the CDNs Compare?

Molly Clancy — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 17:27:22 +0000

Next in our series comparing content delivery network (CDN) providers: AWS Cloudfront and bunny.net.

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Fastly vs. AWS CloudFront: How Do the CDNs Stack Up?

Molly Clancy — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 17:50:09 +0000

Read the first in our series comparing content delivery network (CDN) providers. Today, we compare AWS Cloudfront and Fastly.net.

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