Improving Smart Tiered Cache for Public Cloud Regions
Cloudflare, Friday, July 10th, 2026
Cloudflare enhances Smart Tiered Cache with cloud region hints to improve caching for AWS, GCP, Azure, and Oracle origins.
Cloudflare enhanced its Smart Tiered Cache to better handle origins hosted on public cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle Cloud) that use anycast networking.
Previously, these architectures caused the system to default to multiple upper tiers, reducing cache efficiency.
Users can now provide a cloud region hint, enabling Smart Tiered Cache to map public cloud origins to the right region and select better primary and fallback upper tiers, improving performance and eliminating unnecessary cross-continental traffic routing.