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DIY BYOIP: a new way to Bring Your Own IP prefixes to Cloudflare

Announcing a new self-serve API for Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP), giving customers unprecedented control and flexibility to onboard, manage, and use their own IP prefixes with Cloudflare's services.

So long, and thanks for all the fish: how to escape the Linux networking stack

Many products at Cloudflare aren’t possible without pushing the limits of network hardware and software to deliver improved performance, increased efficiency, or novel capabilities such as soft-unicast, our method for sharing IP subnets across data centers. Happily, most people do not need to know the intricacies of how your operating system handles network and Internet access in general. Yes, even most people within Cloudflare. But sometimes we try to push well beyond the design intentions of Linux’s networking stack. This is a story about one of those attempts.

AWS’s Egregious Egress

Amazon’s says: “We strive to offer our customers the lowest possible prices, the best available selection, and the utmost convenience.” When it comes to egress, their prices are far from the lowest.

Empowering customers with the Bandwidth Alliance

High egress costs from a Cloud limit customers choice in Cloud services. Cloudflare’s Bandwidth Alliance with our cloud partners provides an alternative to this lock-in. Our customers have benefitted from this both via discounted egress costs and choice of storage providers.