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		wmf on April 4, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Scalr: The Auto-Scaling Open-Source Amazon EC2 Eff... I'll elaborate a little. A CDN is supposed to serve content from a server very close to each user, like in the same city. Thus CDNs must have many servers in many cities. AWS does not have many locations, thus because of the speed of light it cannot have latency as low as a good CDN. This is not a problem with AWS; it wasn't designed as a CDN. Do you need a CDN for "general purpose content serving"? Probably not.

lux on April 4, 2008 [–]

Thanks for the reply, that makes total sense. I suppose CDN services should be compatible with AWS anyway, so they wouldn't be mutually exclusive. Each for its purpose :)

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