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The fastest de-referer service... with AWS Global Accelerator

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Re: The fastest de-referer service... with AWS Global Accelerator

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Post by ignoramous »

stingraycharles wrote: post #2

Isn’t AWS Global Accelerator more like CloudFlare Argo, rather than CloudFlare Workers?

No, the equivalent Clouflare service is Spectrum, which is tellingly expensive at $1/GB (!) than AWS Ubiquity / Global Accelerator.

Cloudflare Argo is "more like" AWS Edge-optimized API Gateway.

Re: The fastest de-referer service... with AWS Global Accelerator

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Post by sofixa »

But what are the costs and scalability?

EC2s in many regions + Global Accelerator is a completely different pricing model to pay as you go serverless (and, depending on your use case and usage patterns, more or less expensive), and scaling is entirely up to you. It's cool to optimise for latency, but it would have been nice to have resulting costs and downsides (scaling).

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

Neat, I didn't know AWS had an AnyCast service like that. The Cloudflare workers issue is a bit disappointing, I remember their blog about eliminating cold starts and how clever it seemed, but I guess it's still not there? On another note have you evaluated fly.io at all for this? This looks right in their wheelhouse of many regions + AnyCast + IPv6, and I could definitely see configuration being simpler with them than AWS. Not sure if they'd meet all your requirements though/how they'd compare on price etc.

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Post by dmos62 »

ignoramous wrote: post #3
stingraycharles wrote: post #2

Isn’t AWS Global Accelerator more like CloudFlare Argo, rather than CloudFlare Workers?

No, the equivalent Clouflare service is Spectrum, which is tellingly expensive at $1/GB (!) than AWS Ubiquity / Global Accelerator. Cloudflare Argo is "more like" AWS Edge-optimized API Gateway.

These terms are (or the lack of terms is) pretty horrible: Ubiquity, Argo, Spectrum, Accelerator. Sounds like names given to ironic sci-fi story characters.

Re: The fastest de-referer service... with AWS Global Accelerator

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Post by blacha »

andrewstuart wrote: post #7

I read the first six paragraphs and still really had no idea what this is talking about. Can anyone help me understand?

Looks to be a service to remove the HTTP referer header when linking to other sites.

Say your on example.com and click a a link to foo.com the browser will send the http header `Referer: example.com` in the HTTP get to foo.com, this means foo.com can then track how you came to their site.

Re: The fastest de-referer service... with AWS Global Accelerator

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Post by programmer_dude »

blacha wrote: post #8
andrewstuart wrote: post #7

I read the first six paragraphs and still really had no idea what this is talking about. Can anyone help me understand?

Looks to be a service to remove the HTTP referer header when linking to other sites. Say your on example.com and click a a link to foo.com the browser will send the http header `Referer: example.com` in the HTTP get to foo.com, this means foo.com can then track how you came to their site.

LOL, why do you need an "accelerator" for this?
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