Cloudflare, Inc.

Braden Michael Ehrat

Dane Orion Knecht

Marek Przemyslaw Majkowski

Rustam Xing Lalkaka

Eric Reeves

Oliver Zi-gang Yu

Dina Kozlov

Sergi Isasi

Nicholas Alexander Wondra

Michael John Vanderwater

Jérôme Fleury

Jay A Kreibich

Richard Thompson

A map of IP addresses of a distributed cloud computing network to one or more groupings is stored. The IP addresses are anycast IP addresses for which compute servers of the distributed cloud computing network share. These IP addresses are to be used as source IP addresses when transmitting traffic to destinations external to the cloud computing network. The map is made available to external destinations. Traffic is received at the distributed cloud computing network that is destined to an external destination. An IP address is selected based on the characteristic(s) applicable for the traffic and the map. The distributed cloud computing network transmits the traffic to the external destination using the selected IP address.

Selection of an egress IP address for egress traffic of a distributed cloud computing network

A request from a client device is received at a first one of a plurality of compute nodes at a first one of a plurality of data centers of a distributed cloud computing network. A destination of the request is determined. An optimized route for transmitting the request toward an origin server that corresponds with the destination of the request is determined, where the optimized route is based on at least in part on probe data between data centers of the distributed cloud computing network for a plurality of transit connections, and where the optimized route has an IP address that encodes an identification of which of the plurality of transit connections is to be used to deliver the request. The request is transmitted to a next hop as defined by the optimized route over the identified one of the plurality of transit connections.

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Monticello, IL, United States of America

Braden Michael Ehrat