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Re:Fastly Outage by jamespo on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @06:38AM (#27433065)
Good to have 3rd party redundancy, time to fail over to something else now I'd think though.
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Re:Fastly Outage by longwave on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @06:47AM (#27433229)
They already have:

  $ host m.media-amazon.com
  m.media-amazon.com is an alias for c.media-amazon.com.
  c.media-amazon.com has address 99.86.119.84
(which is a Cloudfront IP)
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Re:Fastly Outage by xmdx on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @06:53AM (#27433330)
Yep they did exactly this and are now running on cloudfront
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