Now serving the Middle East: 4 new data centers, partnerships
Aug 10, 2015Joshua Motta

Summary
This post announces the deployment of four new data centers in the Middle East (Doha, Dubai, Kuwait City, Muscat), bringing the total to 42. It details the rationale behind this expansion, focusing on the high cost of local bandwidth in the MENA region and the suboptimal international connectivity for regional traffic. The post highlights partnerships with regional carriers to improve infrastructure and reduce latency for Cloudflare users in the region, citing significant latency reductions in the UAE and Qatar.