Upgrading the Cloudflare China Network: better performance and security through product innovation and partnership

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This post details the significant upgrade of Cloudflare's China network through a partnership with JD Cloud. It highlights improvements in DNS serving by bringing nameservers within Mainland China, reducing latency and improving reliability. It also describes advancements in DDoS mitigation, pushing L7 attack detection and mitigation to the edge and integrating with local ISPs for L3/L4 attack mitigation. The post provides data demonstrating at least a 30% performance improvement in latency and TTFB for both static and dynamic content, as well as DNS response times, due to the enhanced network design and JD Cloud's infrastructure.