This is not an Akamai competitor. You'll know an Akamai competitor when you see it as it will handle video and large files. This Google offering is limited to

This is not an Akamai competitor. You'll know an Akamai competitor when you see it as it will handle video and large files. This Google offering is limited to files below 4MB, which precludes most video. Really this is a CloudFront competitor, but even then... it is only offering a very basic set of features to do with the caching, rather than anything else CloudFront is doing. Further, the logic of what is cached is very basic: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/http/cdn#whichcontentiscached https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/http/cd... This all serves one goal: Reduce your Google bill by caching more and preventing it reach the server. How it does this is extremely basic, and it has limitations (check the cache invalidation gotchas). The best way to reduce your Google, Amazon S3, and other bills remains to use a CDN in front of it that is cheaper than the storage behind it. The basic features of that you should care about is how easy is it get stuff into cache, serve it over https:// https:// and invalidate it at will. Advanced features should look at DDoS costs (are you paying when you get attacked?), whether there are PoPs/edges where your market is, and then anything specific to your product, though you've usually made a selection before you get this far.