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title: Regional Tiered Cache · Cloudflare Smart Shield docs
description: Regional Tiered Cache provides an additional layer of caching for
  customers who have a global traffic footprint and want to serve content faster
  by avoiding network latency when there is a cache MISS in a lower-tier,
  resulting in an upper-tier fetch in a data center located far away.
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Availability

Available with Smart Shield Advanced.

Regional Tiered Cache provides an additional layer of caching for customers who have a global traffic footprint and want to serve content faster by avoiding network latency when there is a cache `MISS` in a lower-tier, resulting in an upper-tier fetch in a data center located far away.

Regional Tiered Cache instructs Cloudflare to check a regional hub data center near the lower tier before going to the upper tier that may be outside of the region.
