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Am I the only one who finds it strange that Amazon uses Akamai instead of Cloudfront?

• _jal 6y ago
  Why is that? (My first thought was, wow, surprised they outsource that.)
  • blyry 6y ago
    Pure speculation, but probably the same reason they ran Oracle for so long -- not many cdn providers when amazon.com launched. Afaik akamai still has one of the biggest edge networks of all the providers.
  • Legogris 6y ago
    I'd wager at least part of it is the same reason many companies use CloudFront: Separate point of failure in case of downtime at the AWS side, some one else shouldering DDoS.
  • MaxBarraclough 6y ago
    I asked the same question 7 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23537135 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23537135
• forbiddenlake 6y ago
  It varies. For example, for www.amazon.com, I get www.amazon.com -> tp.47cf2c8c9-frontier.amazon.com. -> d3ag4hukkh62yn.cloudfront.net.