Amazon Launches Affordable Content Delivery Network: CloudFront
Nov 18th, 2008
Today Amazon launched the beta version of its content delivery network service called CloudFront that aims at taking the company into the same club as Akamai and Limelight. In contrast to other CDNs, CloudFront is described as "a self-service, pay-as-you-go web service for content delivery." Amazon will charge a usage-based fee, rather than a long-term contract that hopes to bring CDN to smaller web publishers who don't have the scale to negotiate lower prices. "(CloudFront) provides low latency, inexpensive content delivery and ...