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bluedevil2k
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One Fastly customer triggered internet meltdown
Why is Amazon dependent on someone else’s cloud infrastructure?
rchaud
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They can't afford Cloudfront bills either.
busymom0
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Someone answered this yesterday. CloudFront is good for video and large download assets (plus very low margins) but not for images and smaller stuff which Fastly is much faster at:
https://www.streamingmediablog.com/2020/05/fastly-amazon-hom...
Thaxll
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Also large compagnies uses multiple CDN.
tyingq
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I believe Google's Firebase also uses Fastly.
typon
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