Case Study: Discord achieves scalable DDoS protection and lower costs with Cloudflare

Discord saves over $100,000 monthly with Cloudflare

Discord, a voice and text communication app for gamers, faced the challenge of mitigating frequent DDoS attacks on their websockets servers as they experienced rapid growth. Their initial hardware solution was costly and required significant engineering effort to maintain. To protect their user experience and control costs, they needed an affordable and scalable solution, turning to Cloudflare for its security and performance products.

By implementing Cloudflare's Content Delivery Network (CDN) and DDoS mitigation services, Discord was able to securely scale to millions of concurrent users. The solution provided immediate performance benefits and substantial cost savings, reducing Discord's monthly Google Cloud bill by over $100,000. Cloudflare's protection allowed Discord's engineers to focus on product improvement instead of constantly defending against attacks.

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