New regions: Middle East and Africa expansion

Today we’re excited to announce a major expansion of Edge CDN into the Middle East and Africa. This expansion adds 186 new CDN points of presence across 10 cities, bringing low-latency content delivery to regions that have historically been underserved by traditional CDN providers.

Why this matters#

For too long, users in the Middle East and Africa have experienced slow content delivery from global CDN services. Static assets, images, and video were served from distant edge locations in Europe or Asia, adding hundreds of milliseconds of latency. For media-rich websites, video streaming, and e-commerce, this meant slower load times and frustrated users.

With this expansion, we’re changing that. Local CDN presence means your content is cached and served from within the region, dramatically reducing latency and improving the experience for hundreds of millions of users.

New regions#

• Middle East: strategic CDN presence across the Gulf states and wider Middle East, delivering content at sub-20ms latency to one of the world’s fastest-growing digital economies.
• Africa: CDN edge locations across the African continent, serving over 1.4 billion people with low-latency content delivery.

What this means for you#

• Faster content delivery: users in these regions now experience sub-20ms latency instead of 150ms+ when content was served from Europe.
• Local caching: content is cached at edge locations within the region, reducing origin fetches and improving cache hit rates.
• Better user experience: faster page loads, smoother video streaming, and snappier web applications for millions of users.
• Zero configuration: traffic is automatically routed to the nearest PoP. You don’t need to change anything; your content is already being served locally.

Already live#

The new Middle East and Africa CDN regions are already active for all Edge CDN customers. No action is required on your part:

• Traffic is automatically routed to the nearest PoP, with no configuration needed.
• Your existing CDN zones immediately benefit from the new locations.
• Cache warming happens automatically as users request content.
• Zero egress fees apply to these regions, same as everywhere else.

Looking ahead#

This CDN expansion is part of our commitment to building a truly global content delivery network. We believe everyone deserves fast access to content, regardless of where they are. Over the coming months, we’ll continue to add more edge locations in these regions based on demand.

If you have specific requirements for locations not yet covered, we’d love to hear from you. Our CDN expansion roadmap is driven by customer needs.