This article slightly misunderstands key details from the akamai blog post[1]. >Akamai experienced an outage for one of its Prolexic DDoS services (Routed 3.0)

This article slightly misunderstands key details from the akamai blog post[1]. >Akamai experienced an outage for one of its Prolexic DDoS services (Routed 3.0) starting at 4:20 AM UTC. Prolexic "Routed 3.0" is not a CDN product, and is generally separate from Akamai's other services (CDN, DNS). It is a layer 3 DDOS scrubbing product that works by advertising BGP routes for customer IP addresses filtering out attack traffic, and then routes the traffic to the real destination over GRE tunnels.[2] This explains why the customers effected were only customers who are "always on" like banks, who are wary of using a layer-7 CDNs because they don't want someone else terminating their TLS connections. Prolexic doesn't make your site faster, it makes it slower. In AWS terms: the issue was with "Shield" not with "Cloudfront". If Akamai's actual CDN went down, the impact would have been larger than Fastly's outage. [1]: https://blogs.akamai.com/2021/06/akamai-provides-prolexic-ddos-service-impact-update-status-resolved.html https://blogs.akamai.com/2021/06/akamai-provides-prolexic-dd... [2]: https://www.akamai.com/us/en/multimedia/documents/product-brief/prolexic-routed-product-brief.pdf https://www.akamai.com/us/en/multimedia/documents/product-br...