Definitely true - their instant deploys are very impressive from an operations point of view. Small changes only take a few minutes to roll out on Akamai's net

Definitely true - their instant deploys are very impressive from an operations point of view. Small changes only take a few minutes to roll out on Akamai's network. Another commenter talked about Fastly's POP count. Akamai has far more as can be seen here: https://www.akamai.com/uk/en/solutions/intelligent-platform/visualizing-akamai/media-delivery-map.jsp https://www.akamai.com/uk/en/solutions/intelligent-platform/... No doubt having so many POPs (some probably legacy and slower to update) likely extend the update time.