BGP Role model: tracking the adoption of RFC 9234
RFC 9234 lets routers reject route leaks on their own, using BGP Roles and the Only to Customer attribute. We measured who has deployed it, and found two Tier 1 networks unexpectedly stripping OTC.
Cloudflare Blog
Technical deep dives, product updates, and insights from the teams that are helping to build a better Internet.
How Cloudflare detects MCP traffic and helps secure it
Cloudflare Gateway identifies MCP requests using protocol-level heuristics. Security teams can use that signal to find shadow MCP traffic, enforce Portal-only access for approved servers, and block direct connections on managed network paths.
Secure all your internal vibe-coded applications — in one click
Introducing Cloudflare Access for Workers. Attach an Access policy directly to a Worker and it applies everywhere that Worker runs — routes, custom domains, workers.dev, and previews — automatically.
Total eclipse of the Internet: traffic impacts in Iceland, Spain, and Portugal
Cloudflare's data shows a clear impact on Internet traffic from Iceland to Spain and Portugal, following the path of totality of the total solar eclipse that occurred on August 12, 2026.
Certificate Transparency Monitoring is now generally available
Cloudflare's Certificate Transparency Monitoring is now generally available. The biggest change: we no longer email you about certificates Cloudflare issued for your domain, so when an alert lands in your inbox, it's worth a look.
Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report H1 2026: 1 Tbps attacks soar as DNS floods and geopolitical tensions drive a new wave
In the first half of 2026, Cloudflare detected a 519% surge in hyper-volumetric DDos attacks across its network. These attacks were driven heavily by DNS and CLDAP reflection vectors. This report breaks down how major geopolitical conflicts reshaped the global cyber threat landscape.
Everything we launched during Agents Week
Our latest Agents Week has come to a close. Here’s a recap of all the announcements we made from Wallets to Radar.
Serving the most critical missions: Cloudflare for Government achieves FedRAMP Class D (High) Certified status
Cloudflare for Government achieves FedRAMP Class D (High) Certified status. We also announce our commitment to pursue DoD IL4 authorization. Cloudflare brings world-class security, performance, and developer products to the public sector.
Unveiling good and bad behaviors on the Agentic Internet
Cloudflare is shifting bot mitigation from point-in-time Risk assessment to continuous Trust evaluation. Learn how new good and bad behaviors from bots and agents are assessed by our systems, including BotBase and Precursor — and try out our Precursor Trace simulation to see how your own cursor movements would be assessed as human or bot.
Introducing Radar Researcher: An AI tool for exploring Internet data in plain language
Cloudflare Radar Researcher is a new AI-powered tool that lets you explore global Internet trends and traffic data using plain language. Built entirely on Cloudflare's Developer Platform, it turns natural language queries into real, interactive charts.
Announcing Cloudflare Ambassadors, Community Engineers, and another $1M in open-source funding
We are launching updated community programs, including Cloudflare Ambassadors and Community Engineers, backed by $1M in open-source funding. Learn how we are supporting maintainers and scaling our developer community.
Unifying Workers AI and AI Gateway into a single AI control plane
Cloudflare is unifying AI Gateway and Workers AI into a single control plane, giving developers observability, billing, and dynamic routing across both managed GPUs and external providers. Learn how unified bindings and model-first routing simplify building resilient AI applications.
Michelle Chen and Ming Lu
Cloudflare AI Search: give your agents a search engine for your data
AI Search makes search easier than ever, with no Cloudflare primitives to stitch together. Point it at your data to create a search for your own files and websites. We're also sharing a preview of our new pricing model.
The next generation of MCP
The next version of MCP has a rewritten, stateless core that just works on Workers. We cover upgrades to the protocol, the new feature lifecycle and SDK migration path, and hear from early adopters already running it in production.
From ranking to recommended: get your site ready to thrive in the age of AI agents
More than half of requests now come from machines, not people. Agent Readiness shows how well agents can discover and read your site, while Answer Engine Optimization tracks how often AI assistants recommend you.
Building an open Agentic Internet: readable, discoverable, callable, and payable
Agents are a new kind of visitor. They don't render CSS or click ads, but they have a paying human on the other end. Block them and you block your customer. We're building the open tools and protocols so publishers and agents can cooperate and not collide.
Introducing Kitesurf: The agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates on Cloudflare Workers
We should be giving all agents tools that excel at what’s important for an AI model. Kitesurf is Cloudflare’s new stateless, highly scalable, and cost-effective web browser that runs entirely on top of Workers and was designed specifically for the Agentic Cloud.
Give any website a WebMCP interface
Today we're launching a developer preview of WebMCP on Cloudflare. With one switch, any site becomes usable by browser AI agents — no new APIs, no origin changes — while the human stays in control and creators keep their traffic.
Cloudflare is the only vendor named a Visionary in 2026 SASE and SSE reports
We're honored to announce that Cloudflare is the only vendor that has been recognized as a Visionary in both the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SASE Platforms and the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Service Edge reports.
