Amazon CDN
September 29th, 2008
Looks like Amazon will launch a CDN-like offering in the (near?) future. I guess we’ll have to wait a bit to find out if this is really something that can compete with companies like Akamai or not. For everyone who’s not seriously considering a CDN today an Amazon CDN will not be particularly interesting, because why would you use it instead of S3?
Update 11/26: The new CDN launched recently and it’s called CloudFront.
September 30th, 2008 at 9:55am CET
i think that the idea is, that you can basically use the same api as s3 is using for uploading but you can set the content to be available via the cdn. which in turn would mean that the url is reachable via anycast instead of unicast. however i doubt that (at least in the first stages) the performance will be near the very expensive cdn’s that have datacentres almost in every bigger colo near by. that is the actual value of a cdn.