Content Delivery Network (CDN)
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- Akamai - Akami introduced a CDN offering to the marketplace years before cloud computing (e.g. AWS) was a reality. Today it suffers from extreme competition from vendors that also are strong in their security offering like Cloudflare as well as from the convenience of using CDN services native to a given cloud such as Amazon CloudFront. 🌐
- Amazon CloudFront - Amazon CloudFront is the default option for AWS-based services since it can be instrumented programatically. However, in a multi-cloud or public/on-premise scenario, it may be a less attractive option. 🌐
- CloudFront - Amazon CloudFront is AWS' de facto CDN and is available at numerous edge locations across the world. 🌐
- Cloudflare CDN - Cloudflare is one of the most rapidly growing CDN vendors with backing from Microsoft, Google & IBM. Although cloudflare is primarily an internet security service (e.g. prevention from DDoS attacks), integrating security and caching is convenient since it reduces the number of roundtrips to the origin servers. 🌐
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