Mombasa, Kenya: CloudFlare's 43rd data center

This post announces the deployment of a new Cloudflare Point of Presence (PoP) in Mombasa, Kenya. This marks Cloudflare's 43rd global PoP and second in Africa. The primary technical contribution is the establishment of local infrastructure to serve traffic to East African countries, significantly reducing latency for users in Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Mauritius. Latency improvements are quantified with specific examples, showing a 7.5x reduction in round trip time for Uganda and Tanzania. The post also contextualizes this expansion within the growth of Internet infrastructure in Africa and the benefits of localized content delivery.