Cloudflare Waiting Room

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Introduced Cloudflare Waiting Room, a new product built on Cloudflare's edge network and Workers. It protects origin servers from overwhelming demand by placing incoming requests into a virtual queue. The system leverages Workers and Durable Objects for a no-code setup, automatic enablement, and dynamic outflow. It syncs with global demand to determine when to activate the waiting room, ensuring low latency and accurate estimated wait times. The setup involves configuring a hostname, maximum active users, new users per minute, and session duration, with options for default or custom branding.