How Cloudflare helps next-generation markets

How Cloudflare helps next-generation markets
How Cloudflare helps next-generation markets

One of the many magical things about the Internet is that it doesn’t have a country. The Internet doesn’t go through customs, it doesn’t need a visa, and it doesn’t speak any one language. To reach the world’s greatest information innovation, a user – no matter what country they’re in – only needs a device with a connection. The Internet will take care of the rest. At Cloudflare, part of our role is to make sure every person on the planet with an Internet connection has a good experience, whether they’re in a next-generation market or a current-gen market. In this blog we’re going to talk about how we define next-generation markets, how we help people in these markets get faster access to the websites and applications they use on a daily basis, and how we make it easy for developers to deploy services geographically close to users in next-generation markets.

What are next-generation markets?

Next-generation markets are the future of the Internet. Not only are there billions of people who will use the Internet more, as affordable access increases, but the trends in application development already point towards the mobile-first, sometimes mobile-only, way of providing content and services. The Continue reading

Applying Human Rights Frameworks to our approach to abuse

Applying Human Rights Frameworks to our approach to abuse
Applying Human Rights Frameworks to our approach to abuse

Last year, we launched Cloudflare’s first Human Rights Policy, formally stating our commitment to respect human rights under the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) and articulating how we planned to meet the commitment as a business to respect human rights. Our Human Rights Policy describes many of the concrete steps we take to implement these commitments, from protecting the privacy of personal data to respecting the rights of our diverse workforce.

We also look to our human rights commitments in considering how to approach complaints of abuse by those using our services. Cloudflare has long taken positions that reflect our belief that we must consider the implications of our actions for both Internet users and the Internet as a whole. The UNGPs guide that understanding by encouraging us to think systematically about how the decisions Cloudflare makes may affect people, with the goal of building processes to incorporate those considerations.

Human rights frameworks have also been adopted by policymakers seeking to regulate content and behavior online in a rights-respecting way. The Digital Services Act recently passed by the European Union, for example, includes a variety of requirements for intermediaries like Cloudflare that come from human rights Continue reading

How to choose a network service provider

Searching for the best provider for SD-WAN, SASE, MPLS, content delivery network (CDN), 5G or any other network service can be a difficult, frustrating, and tedious process.There are so many providers, so many options, so much confusion and possibilities for future regret. What's the best way to move forward?To read this article in full, please click here

Happy Holidays and All the Best in 2023!

Two hundred forty blog posts and sixteen webinar sessions later, it’s time for yet another “year gone by” blog post – I’m shutting down my virtual office and will disappear until mid-January. I’ll read my email should someone experience an urgent support problem but won’t reply to 90% of the other stuff coming in.

I hope you’ll find a few days to disconnect from the crazy pace of the networking world, forget all the marketing shenanigans you encountered in 2022, and focus on your loved ones. I would also like to wish you all the best in 2023!

Finally, I couldn’t resist posting a few teasers of what’s coming in early 20231:

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Happy Holidays and All the Best in 2023!

Two hundred forty blog posts and sixteen webinar sessions later, it’s time for yet another “year gone by” blog post – I’m shutting down my virtual office and will disappear until mid-January. I’ll read my email should someone experience an urgent support problem but won’t reply to 90% of the other stuff coming in.

I hope you’ll find a few days to disconnect from the crazy pace of the networking world, forget all the marketing shenanigans you encountered in 2022, and focus on your loved ones. I would also like to wish you all the best in 2023!

Finally, I couldn’t resist posting a few teasers of what’s coming in early 20231:

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Interacting with JSON data using JMESPath

Interacting with JSON data using JMESPath

Have you ever found yourself drowning in a sea of JSON data, desperately trying to extract just the right information? I know I have. In my recent Python project, I encountered this exact scenario all too often. I'd be faced with massive JSON files, and extracting the specific data I needed became a headache, involving endless nested loops and conditional statements.

That's when I stumbled upon JMESPath, a lifesaver in the world of data extraction. JMESPath provides a simple and powerful way to query and manipulate JSON data. It's like having a magic wand that lets you effortlessly pluck out exactly what you need from even the most complex JSON structures.

In this post, I'll walk you through an example of how JMESPath came to my rescue and revolutionized the way I work with JSON data. So buckle up, because once you see what JMESPath can do, you'll wonder how you ever managed without it. Let's dive in!

What is JMESPath?

JMESPath, a query language for JSON serves as your trusty companion in the realm of JSON data manipulation. With JMESPath, you can effortlessly filter, extract, and transform information from JSON datasets, making it an invaluable tool for anyone who Continue reading

Arista adds to its data-center switches

Arista Networks has a new high-end data-center switch as well as several smaller ones designed to provide more configuration and upgrade choices to fit the specific needs of individual organizations.“Different customer use cases and application deployments within a single organization have differing requirements. Each deployment needs a right-sized solution—few applications need 400G of bandwidth per server today, but many organizations need to do the groundwork for the move away from 10/25G,” wrote Martin Hull, vice president of Cloud Titans and Platform Product Management with Arista in a blog about the new systems.To read this article in full, please click here

Arista expands high-end data center switch family to offer network speed, density and performance options

Arista Networks has a new high-end data-center switch as well as several smaller ones designed to provide more configuration and upgrade choices to fit the specific needs of individual organizations.“Different customer use cases and application deployments within a single organization have differing requirements. Each deployment needs a right-sized solution—few applications need 400G of bandwidth per server today, but many organizations need to do the groundwork for the move away from 10/25G,” wrote Martin Hull, vice president of Cloud Titans and Platform Product Management with Arista in a blog about the new systems.To read this article in full, please click here

Coming Soon: Ask Me Anything!?

Well, maybe not *anything*, but almost anything is fair game. I’m delighted to share with you that, starting January 2023, I’m hosting a new “Ask JJX” column right here in the Packet Pushers community! This new column lets us interact in new and exciting ways, and truly have a conversation about the topics that matter […]

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Cloudflare achieves FedRAMP authorization to secure more of the public sector

Cloudflare achieves FedRAMP authorization to secure more of the public sector

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Cloudflare achieves FedRAMP authorization to secure more of the public sector

We are excited to announce our public sector suite of services, Cloudflare for Government, has achieved FedRAMP Moderate Authorization. The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (“FedRAMP”) is a US-government-wide program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services. FedRAMP Moderate Authorization demonstrates Cloudflare’s continued commitment to customer trust, and Cloudflare for Government’s ability to secure and protect US public sector organizations.

Key differentiators

We believe public sector customers deserve the same experience as any other customer — so rather than building a separate platform, we leveraged our existing platform for Cloudflare for Government. Cloudflare’s platform protects and accelerates any Internet application without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. It’s also one of the largest and fastest global networks on the planet.

One of the things that distinguishes Cloudflare for Government from other FedRAMP cloud providers is the number of data centers we have in scope, with each able to run our full stack of FedRAMP Authorized services locally, with a single control plane on our private backbone. Networking and security services can only improve the Continue reading

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform now available in AWS Marketplace

AWS marketplace blog

At AnsibleFest 2022 in the “windy city” Chicago, Red Hat announced Ansible Automation Platform’s upcoming availability in AWS Marketplace. That day is here!  

I’d like to take a few moments to provide some more details about this offering and why you should be considering Ansible Automation Platform in AWS Marketplace.

As organization’s hybrid cloud environments continue to grow in complexity, so does the need to increase efficiency and speed. The solution is to leverage an automation platform that can help any organization create, manage, and scale their automation efforts across the entire IT infrastructure. Ansible Automation Platform is the glue that can coordinate and scale automation across all IT domains.

 

AWS Marketplace deployment

Ansible Automation Platform deploys directly from the AWS Marketplace as a self-managed application. There are many benefits of deploying Ansible Automation Platform in AWS Marketplace.

  1. It deploys into your environment, where you have total control over the solution.
  2. Ongoing upgrades will be simpler because of this deployment model, so while this is a self-managed solution, it’s still simpler to maintain than if you had started from scratch yourself.
  3. The ability to scale out the Ansible Automation Platform environment using extension nodes. (I’ll write a blog Continue reading
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