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Cloudflare fronts 89.6% of European companies that use a CDN
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CipherCue's analysis of 44,143 European companies with a detected CDN finds 89.6% are behind Cloudflare, with shares ranging from 78.8% in Spain and Ireland to 95.6% in the Netherlands.
The concentration means a Cloudflare incident becomes a market-wide outage: three global incidents in the last fifteen months took many sites down together. For engineers, resilience planning must account for the shared dependency, since independent suppliers fail independently but most of the market shares one front door.
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Cloudflare fronts 89.6% of the 44,143 European companies where a CDN was detected.
Amazon is second at 3,112, Fastly third at 1,299, and Akamai fourth at 396, with double counting possible.
Cloudflare's share varies by country, from 78.8% in Spain and Ireland to 95.6% in the Netherlands.
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