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Cloudflare does not have "regions": your stuff runs everywhere on our network. And we can be really smart about where's the best place: https://blog.cloudflare.

• yencabulator 3y ago
  That sounds like "Cloudflare automated region handling", not that regions don't exist. For example, make your app talk to two backends in different EC2 regions, and now none of the smart placement helps you. The poster we're replying to seems to be gleefully ignorant of speed of light limits and fundamental distributed systems challenges.
  • jgrahamc 3y ago
    No. That’s wrong. We don’t “manage regions”. 300 data centers. Everything running everything. Only time you’d need to think of a region is if you have some compliance situation (“keep all my data in North America” or “only terminate TLS in the EU”) and ask to subdivide our network using Regional Services. But there’s no decision on here you say “I’ll use Cloudflare-EU-North-42” and get stuck with it as no such things exist.