Just when you thought Cloudflare reached the end, CloudFlare’s Latin America data center expansion continues. Hot on the heels of their recent expansion into Santiago, São Paulo, and Medellin, this holiday season commences in Lima with the 29th cloudflare data center globally, and the fourth in Latin America.
Latin America is the fastest growing source of traffic to CloudFlare’s network, with nearly 10x growth in just the last twelve months. The new data center in Lima reduces the latency to access any site using CloudFlare, increases web performance for users in the region from Iquitos to Tacna, and adds another point of redundancy. It also increases the capacity and surface area of the CloudFlare network to absorb massive cyber attacks. This is of particular benefit to CloudFlare customers the Presidency of Peru and the ONPE, Peru’s National Election Office. In the lead up to the Peruvian elections this month, CloudFlare partnered with the Government of Peru to ensure that local elections go off without a hitch — no easy feat when voter turnout is expected to reach nearly 90%.
