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"Pick and Mix" Custom Regions: Cloudflare Introduces Fine-Grained Data Residency Control

Renato Losio — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 06:01:00 GMT

Cloudflare recently introduced Custom Regions, an expansion of its Regional Services that lets customers precisely define where their data is processed. By selecting specific groups of data centers by country or region, customers can ensure that TLS termination and application-layer processing remain within chosen geographic boundaries for compliance and control.

By Renato Losio

QCon London 2026: Kleppmann on Mitigating Europe's Cloud Dependency with Local-First Software

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:03:00 GMT

Europe is completely dependent on US cloud services, Martin Kleppmann told QCon London. His fix: commoditise everything. He walked through three technologies he's helped build: multi-cloud via de facto standards, Bluesky's AT Protocol for social media, and local-first software for collaboration, all designed to make switching providers trivial and shift power back to users.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers