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Originally Posted by GrouchyAdmin
others are trying to do a form of this using Amazon's S3.
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Yup - unfortunately for them, S3 is not a content delivery network. S3 is a great storage platform, but it's delivery capabilities are sub-optimal from a performance stand point.
Given that trend - one of the first things we did when building out our own Content Delivery Network was to integrate with S3 on the back-end directly to pull content off of it using the API (rather than forcing our customers to operate their own HTTP gateways to S3 like most CDNs - or open their S3 content library to any unauthenticated users) and into our CDN for caching and actual delivery.
Additionally - at $0.18-0.13/GB (before you tack on the surcharges for the actual REQUESTS sent to it), if you're doing any sort of volume, a proper CDN wouldn't be all that more expensive.