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Originally Posted by SMachiz
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.
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Yeah. Reading the API docs, only one thing came to mind:
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Originally Posted by SMachiz
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.
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This intrigues me a bit; I don't have a use for your services, yet, but I'm interested in what you're doing for authentication - are you using an instant-expire ticket based system, or a tried-and-true host hashing system with timeout/decay?