Introducing Custom Regions for precision data control

Cloudflare announces expanded Regional Services—adding Turkey, the UAE, IRAP (Australia), and ISMAP (Japan)—and introduces Custom Regions, which let customers define precise geographical boundaries for TLS termination and Layer 7 processing. The post explains the architecture (global ingestion with L3/L4 DDoS defense, intelligent in-region routing over Cloudflare’s private backbone, in-region TLS termination and L7 processing), how regions are defined via data-center metadata expressions, routing selection criteria (network performance, capacity, operational status), resilience and fail-close behavior, and availability/activation procedures.