Comments on: Amazon finally launches a CDN http://www.whirlycott.com/phil/2008/09/18/amazon-finally-launches-a-cdn/ Philip Jacob's web page Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:36:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Philip Jacob http://www.whirlycott.com/phil/2008/09/18/amazon-finally-launches-a-cdn/comment-page-1/#comment-105394 Philip Jacob Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:18:50 +0000 http://www.whirlycott.com/phil/?p=209#comment-105394 To be clear, I think that this still has some value, especially for those of us who have stuff on S3. Otherwise, I think someone just took a big bite out of CacheFly's market share. A low-end EC2 box doesn't contain built-in redundancy or, more importantly, the fancy routing juice that you need to have a successful CDN. Amazon will totally build the lazy-loading scheme at some point. It's a key feature of every semi-serious CDN out there. To be clear, I think that this still has some value, especially for those of us who have stuff on S3. Otherwise, I think someone just took a big bite out of CacheFly’s market share.

A low-end EC2 box doesn’t contain built-in redundancy or, more importantly, the fancy routing juice that you need to have a successful CDN. Amazon will totally build the lazy-loading scheme at some point. It’s a key feature of every semi-serious CDN out there.

]]> By: Ben http://www.whirlycott.com/phil/2008/09/18/amazon-finally-launches-a-cdn/comment-page-1/#comment-105382 Ben Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:00:27 +0000 http://www.whirlycott.com/phil/?p=209#comment-105382 So... isn't that a business opportunity? It's just a very low-load EC2 server to do the bridge, right? So… isn’t that a business opportunity? It’s just a very low-load EC2 server to do the bridge, right?

]]> By: Andrew http://www.whirlycott.com/phil/2008/09/18/amazon-finally-launches-a-cdn/comment-page-1/#comment-105380 Andrew Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:47:38 +0000 http://www.whirlycott.com/phil/?p=209#comment-105380 They'll need lazy-loading need to recruit you and your ilk, but it's only round one for Amazon in this game, so no surprise they focused on existing customers who already put everything on s3 (like me). And if the price is right, and the service is good, I bet even if Amazon is slow to add that feature, someone else will - same way they have businesses growing up around making their other services easy to use. They’ll need lazy-loading need to recruit you and your ilk, but it’s only round one for Amazon in this game, so no surprise they focused on existing customers who already put everything on s3 (like me). And if the price is right, and the service is good, I bet even if Amazon is slow to add that feature, someone else will – same way they have businesses growing up around making their other services easy to use.

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