What happens when you update your DNS

Re:What happens when you update your DNS by chrisweekly on Monday June 22, 2020 @08:03PM (#23608442)

Am I the only one who finds it strange that Amazon uses Akamai instead of Cloudfront?

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Re:What happens when you update your DNS by forbiddenlake on Monday June 22, 2020 @10:22PM (#23609325)

It varies. For example, for www.amazon.com, I get www.amazon.com -> tp.47cf2c8c9-frontier.amazon.com. -> d3ag4hukkh62yn.cloudfront.net.

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Re:What happens when you update your DNS by _jal on Monday June 22, 2020 @08:28PM (#23608648)

Why is that?

(My first thought was, wow, surprised they outsource that.)

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Re:What happens when you update your DNS by Legogris on Monday June 22, 2020 @11:18PM (#23609587)

I'd wager at least part of it is the same reason many companies use CloudFront: Separate point of failure in case of downtime at the AWS side, some one else shouldering DDoS.

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Re:What happens when you update your DNS by blyry on Monday June 22, 2020 @09:27PM (#23609036)

Pure speculation, but probably the same reason they ran Oracle for so long -- not many cdn providers when amazon.com launched. Afaik akamai still has one of the biggest edge networks of all the providers.

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Re:What happens when you update your DNS by MaxBarraclough on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @05:58AM (#23611844)

I asked the same question 7 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23537135

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