3 ms·
You know Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google, etc and other major companies use CDN's like Akamai to deliver their content to users right? Building a few data c
by jaypaulynice 10y ago
You know Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google, etc and other major companies use CDN's like Akamai to deliver their content to users right?
Building a few data centers may not be not be hard and may be cheaper, what's hard is serving content fast and as close to your users as possible in the world. For that how many data centers could you really build?!
- aiiane 10y agoGoogle runs its own CDN.
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- jaypaulynice 10y agoI think Youtube is still using Akamai but not as much anymore and Google's CDN is in beta last I checked. Google partners with other major CDN's also. https://www.quora.com/What-CDN-does-YouTube-use https://www.quora.com/What-CDN-does-YouTube-use https://cloud.google.com/interconnect/cdn-interconnect https://cloud.google.com/interconnect/cdn-interconnect
- boulos 10y agoCDN Interconnect isn't the same as Cloud CDN (sorry, the names aren't great). Cloud CDN itself (https://cloud.google.com/cdn https://cloud.google.com/cdn) has been GA for a while, but support for reaching GCS directly from our Load Balancer (https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/http/using-http-lb-with-cloud-storage https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/http/us...) and therefore CDN support is in Beta. Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.