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AWS to offer a content delivery service
- trickjarrett 18y agoProbably the most obvious business move ever. They've had the framework for it, they just never labeled it as such.
- vaksel 18y agowonder what their speeds will be like compared to other CDNs
- seano 18y agoYou can already do this through a CNAME.
- prakash 18y agoThis was not surprising considering many startups were using Amazon's S3 storage services as a CDN. A couple of companies were using amazon's web services to build a CDN on top of it, so it was a complete no-brainer for amazon to launch one. A CDN is a different beast when compared to running the other Amazon Web services. Werner Vogels says Using a global network of edge locations this new service can deliver popular data stored in Amazon S3 to customers around the globe through local access. (http://tinyurl.com/5xxuxe http://tinyurl.com/5xxuxe) It will be interesting to see Amazon's definition of an edge location, and the network + geographic spread of servers.
- bestes 18y agoI like it because it's one less sales person I need to talk to.
- Mistone 18y agowith online video / rich media exploding CDN are killing it right now. smart move by AWS.
- shimon 18y agoWhat, servers only on three continents? Amateurs.
- geeko 18y agoI wonder whether there will be also https support. That was one main reason why cachefly didn't work for me.
- briansmith 18y agoHTTPS and CDN's don't really mix too well because a CDN is by definition a man in the middle.
- bprater 18y agoIt'll be a great option for folks, but traditional CDNs do offer additional capabilities like streaming, which S3 cannot do right now.