Is this not some kind of peering, though ? The way I see it, Cloudflare decided to peer with Google instead of using transit or, even worse, public internet (wi

Is this not some kind of peering, though ? The way I see it, Cloudflare decided to peer with Google instead of using transit or, even worse, public internet (with the overhead it has over AS-to-AS connections). I don't see how the "public internet" somehow lost anything.