> Is it really cost effective to roll your own for that kind of thing? Nope, hence leveraging Amazon et al. I would consider the AWS "above the cloud" offering

> Is it really cost effective to roll your own for that kind of thing? Nope, hence leveraging Amazon et al. I would consider the AWS "above the cloud" offering (as I've now dubbed it) to essentially be the same commoditized thing as what you linked. An extraterrestrial CDN with edge compute if you will.