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Session: Pushing To The Edge: Unlocking Gameplay Potential With The Cloud - Jason Attwood.

The gaming industry increasingly relies on cloud infrastructure to manage the complex requirements of modern titles, ranging from real-time multiplayer games to asynchronous experiences like turn-based strategy and leaderboard-driven titles.

• Cloudflare utilizes a global network of 335 points of presence across 125 countries, employing an anycast system to route traffic to the nearest data center for low-latency performance.
• Serverless 'Workers' allow developers to execute custom logic at the network edge, billing only for active computation time rather than total request duration to optimize costs.
• The platform provides integrated security layers designed to mitigate volumetric DDoS attacks and credential stuffing, acting as a proxy between users and core infrastructure.