Amazon Web Services does offer a worldwide CDN, CloudFront. http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/
CDN vs S3
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#12Since this thread will likely turn into people asking about Cloudfront performance, does anyone have any real-world experience with CloudFront vs. Rackspace with Akamai CDN?
On paper the Rackspace one looks like a great performance/price alternative.
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#14Since this thread will likely turn into people asking about Cloudfront performance, does anyone have any real-world experience with CloudFront vs. Rackspace with Akamai CDN? On paper the Rackspace one looks like a great performance/price alternative.
I am in the process of abandoning Cloudfront, because they have a serious bug when serving video files. They serve HTTP 206 (Range-Get) as HTTP 1.0 but 206 didn't exist in HTTP 1.0. Chrome and Firefox treat this as "uncacheable", thus media assets bypass the local media cache.
Depending on the nature of the content, Cloudfront is not usable for video, particularly the kind where people seek around a bunch, like instructional videos and tutorials. Also, people with slow connections expect the video to buffer while paused. This doesn't happen if you serve the videos from cloudfront.
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#15obvious: Amazon product isn't that great @ a service that's optimally provided by another Amazon product.
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#16obvious: Amazon product isn't that great @ a service that's optimally provided by another Amazon product. http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/
@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.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
@davidandgoliath I work for MaxCDN so I would probably get fired. =P
Why would you get fired for covering an obvious and well-known CDN alternative in your blog post? Honestly interested :-)
Because it's not in his or his company's best interest? I bet that Cloudfront's performance isn't too different from MaxCDN's.
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#18Since this thread will likely turn into people asking about Cloudfront performance, does anyone have any real-world experience with CloudFront vs. Rackspace with Akamai CDN? On paper the Rackspace one looks like a great performance/price alternative.
I am in the process of abandoning Cloudfront, because they have a serious bug when serving video files. They serve HTTP 206 (Range-Get) as HTTP 1.0 but 206 didn't exist in HTTP 1.0. Chrome and Firefox treat this as "uncacheable", thus media assets bypass the local media cache. Depending on the nature of the content, Cloudfront is not usable for video, particularly the kind where people seek around a bunch, like instr…
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#19Since this thread will likely turn into people asking about Cloudfront performance, does anyone have any real-world experience with CloudFront vs. Rackspace with Akamai CDN? On paper the Rackspace one looks like a great performance/price alternative.
I am in the process of abandoning Cloudfront, because they have a serious bug when serving video files. They serve HTTP 206 (Range-Get) as HTTP 1.0 but 206 didn't exist in HTTP 1.0. Chrome and Firefox treat this as "uncacheable", thus media assets bypass the local media cache. Depending on the nature of the content, Cloudfront is not usable for video, particularly the kind where people seek around a bunch, like instr…
Why would Cloudfront cause the player to stop buffering the video? Does it happen with a HTTP Download distribution, or the RTMP streaming distribution? I've used both CloudFront and Akamai for serving video, and I don't remember running into those issues. I have only tested it with normal HTTP Download distributions, however.
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#20Who said s3 is a CDN at the first place!?