It is a fully integrated core service built on the Akamai edge platform when you are buying and implementing it, and then a tiny little no-nothing "gosh are people still using that?!" in the corner when it goes down.
You also might want to take a look at who Geoff is before claiming that he is misunderstanding how a routing product works. https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductees/geoff-huston
I'm sure he understands how it works, but IMO calling Prolexic a CDN is wrong.
Re:CDNs and Centrality
by youmustbeblind on Saturday July 03, 2021 @11:06PM
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Does anyone adopt akamai for greenfield nowadays? Seems a dated product, it's either fastly or cloudflare or CloudFront it seems nowadays
>Akamai experienced an outage for one of its Prolexic DDoS services (Routed 3.0) starting at 4:20 AM UTC.
Prolexic "Routed 3.0" is not a CDN product, and is generally separate from Akamai's other services (CDN, DNS). It is a layer 3 DDOS scrubbing product that works by advertising BGP routes for customer IP addresses filtering out attack traffic, and then routes the traffic to the real destination over GRE tunnels.[2]
This explains why the customers effected were only customers who are "always on" like banks, who are wary of using a layer-7 CDNs because they don't want someone else terminating their TLS connections. Prolexic doesn't make your site faster, it makes it slower.
In AWS terms: the issue was with "Shield" not with "Cloudfront". If Akamai's actual CDN went down, the impact would have been larger than Fastly's outage.
[1]: https://blogs.akamai.com/2021/06/akamai-provides-prolexic-dd...
[2]: https://www.akamai.com/us/en/multimedia/documents/product-br...