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obvious: Amazon product isn't that great @ a service that's optimally provided by another Amazon product. http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/ http://aws.amazon.c

obvious: Amazon product isn't that great @ a service that's optimally provided by another Amazon product. http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/ http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/

jdorfman 13y ago
@molecule obvious to you and I. I wrote this to inform those who think it is a good idea to use S3 as a CDN, that it isn't. If we can educate a few developers then we (this awesome community of hackers) are making the web faster.
- fintler 13y ago
  So why is the title of your post "CDN vs S3"? Shouldn't it be something like "Don't use S3 as a CDN"? To be honest, your post feels like spam for MaxCDN.
- zwily 13y ago
  Honest question: Do you actually know anyone that thinks S3 is appropriate as a CDN?
  - Kudos 13y ago
    Tumblr and Twitter both used to, and I've met a bunch of developers at meetups who rather than think S3 is a CDN, do not understand what a CDN is.
    - kalleboo 13y ago
      Using S3 for file hosting is still a better solution than using a raw box (or shared virtual hosting) which is what most people who use S3 instead of a CDN would have been doing otherwise.
- molecule 13y ago
  > If we can educate a few developers then we (this awesome community of hackers) are making the web faster. You're not making the web faster, you're shilling for your employer by comparing their apples to a competitor's oranges and proclaiming "our competitor's oranges make bad apple sauce!" Failure to mention CloudFront is disingenuous.
  - jdorfman 13y ago
    CloudFront