Expanding Regional Services configuration flexibility for customers

Cloudflare announces expanded Regional Services to give customers granular control over where traffic is inspected to meet data localization and sovereignty needs, adding new regions (e.g., Austria, Brazil, France, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland), exclusion-based options (Exclusive of Hong Kong and Macau; Exclusive of Russia and Belarus), and a Green Energy region, all under a software-defined regionalization (SDR) model with early access in late May 2024 and GA in June 2024; the post outlines how strong encryption, anycast routing, and forwarding encrypted traffic for in-region decryption and Layer 7 controls (CDN, WAF, Bot Management, Workers) enable compliance without sacrificing performance.