Cloudflare Launches Smart Tiered Cache for Public Cloud Regions to Cut Egress and Latency

Cloudflare has released Smart Tiered Cache for Public Cloud Regions, a new capability that automatically selects the optimal upper-tier cache point of presence (PoP) for origins hosted on major cloud providers. When an origin's IP address is detected as anycast, a common pattern for load-balanced cloud endpoints, Cloudflare now lets customers specify the cloud region (such as aws:us-east-1 or gcp:europe-west1) where that origin logically resides. The system then maps that region to the best-performing upper-tier PoP using continuous latency probing data refreshed every 15 minutes. Previously, Smart Tiered Cache would fall back to a multi-tier topology for anycast origins, spreading traffic across multiple upper tiers and increasing origin egress. With the region hint, Cloudflare pins the origin to a single primary upper tier backed by a geographically separate fallback PoP, reducing both latency and data transfer costs. The feature launches with support for AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and Oracle Cloud, with more providers planned. Configuration is available via the Cloudflare dashboard, API, and Terraform provider.