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> Akamai to shut down its CDN operations in China ...and continue offering the same service by reselling Tencent's CDN. Looks like they're making this one of
by thaumasiotes 2y ago
> Akamai to shut down its CDN operations in China
...and continue offering the same service by reselling Tencent's CDN.
Looks like they're making this one of the things in China that has to be provided locally?
- wordofx 2y agoThey don’t want foreign businesses having a solid foothold in the country.
- toomuchtodo 2y agoControl is important during both global decoupling and potential geopolitical conflict (Taiwan).
- khana 2y ago[dead]
- kittikitti 2y agoThis can often occur when parts of the application are out of their control. For example, geographical apps are hard to recreate locally on the scale of Google or Apple Maps. It's vastly easier and sometimes cheaper to use their API. But if China has any disputes on how it's represented in the geo data, the software becomes a liability.
- flaminHotSpeedo 2y agoMore likely Tencent will own the land and physical infrastructure but it will still be Akamai software operated by Akamai employees.