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Why is that? (My first thought was, wow, surprised they outsource that.)
by _jal 6y ago
Why is that?
(My first thought was, wow, surprised they outsource that.)
- blyry 6y agoPure 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 agoI'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 agoI asked the same question 7 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23537135 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23537135