Introducing Load Balancing & Intelligent Failover with Cloudflare

This post introduces Cloudflare's Load Balancing and Intelligent Failover service, making it available to all customers. It highlights the ability to route requests between multiple origins for performance and resilience, especially across different geographic locations and cloud providers. A key contribution is the near-instantaneous failover for proxied traffic, overcoming the limitations of DNS-based load balancing and TTL propagation delays. The post also emphasizes the service's robustness against DDoS attacks and its active/passive monitoring capabilities for origin health.