> I'm surprised that CF are renting space in colocation facilities. I would have expected a business of their size to have their own DCs. Is this common practic

> I'm surprised that CF are renting space in colocation facilities. I would have expected a business of their size to have their own DCs. Is this common practice for cloud providers? Google for one has both. Some GCP regions [0] are in colos, while others are in places where we already had datacenters [1]. We also use colo facilities for peering (and bandwidth offload + connection termination). I'm under the impression that most AWS Cloudfront locations are also in colo facilities. [0] https://cloud.google.com/about/locations https://cloud.google.com/about/locations [1] https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/locations/ https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/locations/