> The cloud trades agility for cost. Very true. Did you actually need a globally distributed CDN just for 15 minutes though, or was this a learning/PoC exerci

> The cloud trades agility for cost. Very true. Did you actually need a globally distributed CDN just for 15 minutes though, or was this a learning/PoC exercise? For any business that has very spiky resource needs (such as this example), the cloud is ideal. I've never been in such a business though, usually there is a fairly predictable (hopefully growing) steady load with small variance.