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I wish people didn't use S3 in lieu of a CDN. From Hong Kong on a 100mbps line (and I can hit 11MB up and down): 10mb binary file S3 US Standard avg 112k

by latch 14y ago

I wish people didn't use S3 in lieu of a CDN. From Hong Kong on a 100mbps line (and I can hit 11MB up and down): 10mb binary file S3 US Standard avg 112k/s took 1:31 S3 Singapore avg 1290K/s took 0:07 S3 Tokyo avg 895K/s took 0:11 Cloudfront avg 8758k/sec took 0:01 Latency to Singapore is around 50ms, latency to Cloudfront is < 4ms.

dredmorbius 14y ago
CloudFront is S3-backed CDN.
- coderdude 14y ago
  You can use S3 as an origin server for CloudFront but it's not serving files directly from S3. CloudFront has "edge locations" that you can push files to from S3 -- which "stores the original, definitive versions of your files."[1] [1] http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/ http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/
  - dredmorbius 14y ago
    Thanks. Still picking this up myself.
    - enjo 14y ago
      It's important to note that Cloudfront also supports custom origins, so it doesn't even have to involve s3 these days.
- onetwothreefour 14y ago
  CloudFront is also one of the worst CDNs available. Let me know when Amazon.com is running on CloudFront instead of Akamai.