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Re:Fastly S-1 by tyingq on Friday April 19, 2019 @08:40AM (#19699059)
They are in the CDN/Edge space. Akamai and Cloudflare are more direct comparisons.

AWS, GCP, and Azure have CDNs as well, but those are more typically used by existing customers to front things running there.

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Re:Fastly S-1 by merreborn on Friday April 19, 2019 @06:45PM (#19703636)
Fastly also has more "points of presence" than AWS/GCP

Fastly has deployments in 17 north american cities. AWS is in 5.

They're pretty different strategies. For every massive AWS datacenter on a continent, fastly has at least 3 tiny ones -- inevitably closer to your customers, meaning lower RTT.

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