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Case Studies
Discord's Growth and DDoS Mitigation with Cloudflare
Overview
Discord's Growth and DDoS Mitigation with CloudflareCloudflare |
Cybersecurity & Privacy - Network Security Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing | |
Telecommunications | |
Business Operation | |
Cybersecurity Fleet Management | |
Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services Cybersecurity Services | |
Operational Impact
Discord easily scaled the business to their current 2.4 million concurrent users (a 400% growth in just one year), by leveraging Cloudflare’s Content Distribution Network (CDN). | |
Over 2PB of Discord’s traffic per month is served directly from Cloudflare’s edgeside cache to Discord’s users. | |
Discord, a Google Cloud customer, both provides customers with a snappier application through the high speed interconnections between Cloudflare and Google Cloud. | |
Quantitative Benefit
Saving $100,000 on annual hardware costs | |
Saving $100,000 monthly on Google Cloud bill | |
Secure traffic even with spikes of websockets events up to 2 million/second | |