This was not surprising considering many startups were using Amazon's S3 storage services as a CDN. A couple of companies were using amazon's web services to build a CDN on top of it, so it was a complete no-brainer for amazon to launch one.
A CDN is a different beast when compared to running the other Amazon Web services. Werner Vogels says Using a global network of edge locations this new service can deliver popular data stored in Amazon S3 to customers around the globe through local access. (http://tinyurl.com/5xxuxe)
It will be interesting to see Amazon's definition of an edge location, and the network + geographic spread of servers.
A CDN is a different beast when compared to running the other Amazon Web services. Werner Vogels says Using a global network of edge locations this new service can deliver popular data stored in Amazon S3 to customers around the globe through local access. (http://tinyurl.com/5xxuxe)
It will be interesting to see Amazon's definition of an edge location, and the network + geographic spread of servers.