Cloudflare Video CDN vs. AWS CloudFront for Video Streaming

Cloudflare Video CDN vs. AWS CloudFront for Video Streaming

Selecting the optimal delivery network for video content is a high-leverage decision that impacts both technical performance and long-term financial scalability. At the center of this evaluation is the Cloudflare Video CDN, specifically through the Cloudflare Stream product, which offers a consolidated approach to storage and playback. With a transparent pricing structure starting at $5/month—covering … Read more

9-Minute Cloudflare Reverse Proxy Guide: 80/20 Edge Security

9-Minute Cloudflare Reverse Proxy Guide: 80/20 Edge Security

Cloudflare Reverse Proxy functions as a high-leverage abstraction layer between client requests and backend origin servers. By decrypting and re-encrypting HTTPS traffic at the network edge, it offloads critical security and optimization tasks that would otherwise consume origin resources. A production-grade implementation leverages the Cloudflare Reverse Proxy to deploy DDoS mitigation, WAF rulesets for SQLi/bot … Read more

9 Key Lessons from the Cloudflare Outage: 2025-2026 Failures

9 Key Lessons from the Cloudflare Outage: 2025-2026 Failures

A Cloudflare outage refers to a disruption in internet services caused by failures within Cloudflare’s global content delivery and security infrastructure. Between late 2025 and early 2026, the network experienced a series of high-profile “Code Orange” events. These were triggered by a configuration error in database permissions (November 18), a “nil value” Lua exception during … Read more

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