CLOUDFLARE FOR GAMING
Address the technical challenges that are holding your game back
The challenge Cloudflare solution The benefits
Attackers target games with credential stuffing , content scraping , and ‘ gold farming ’ attacks .
Players expect fast gameplay experiences , but network congestion can slow down traffic .
DDoS protection for custom TCP / UDP gaming applications requires more resources .
A DDoS attack can knock your game offline , resulting in upset players and lost revenue .
Bot Management
Argo Smart Routing
Spectrum
Magic Transit
Cloudflare Bot Management uses data from approximately 25 million Internet properties to identify and mitigate bad bots . Plus , customers use Bot Analytics to understand trends and improve security over time .
Argo Smart Routing directs web traffic on the least-congested network paths , improving game performance and reducing latency . On average , Argo helps web assets perform 30 % faster .
Extend Cloudflare ’ s DDoS protection , traffic acceleration , load balancing , and other capabilities to custom TCP / UDP gaming applications .
Defend your network infrastructure against DDoS attacks while improving performance . DDoS mitigation runs on every server in the Cloudflare network , which operates within 100 milliseconds of 95 % of the Internet-connected population globally . That means attack mitigation happens quickly because it takes place close to the source .
“ Cloudflare Spectrum helped us really boost the performance and resiliency of our custom TCP protocols . With other providers , it takes more than 30 seconds to a minute before scrubbing or mitigation takes place . Using Spectrum , it ’ s much faster .”
Ben Burns Chief Information Officer , Turtle Entertainment Online , Inc .
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