AWS is playing chess, Cloudflare is playing Go

Re:AWS is playing chess, Cloudflare is playing Go by nvarsj on Monday October 18, 2021 @10:38AM (#28905862)

That report is very misleading. Customer count is a useless metric for a CDN. If you looked at total traffic and spend, Cloudflare would be dwarfed.

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Re:AWS is playing chess, Cloudflare is playing Go by andrewnyr on Monday October 18, 2021 @10:47AM (#28905974)

It is when about 18% of the internet runs through Cloudflare.

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Re:AWS is playing chess, Cloudflare is playing Go by motives on Monday October 18, 2021 @11:47AM (#28906740)

Source? Assuming you're talking about 18% of traffic and not percentage of websites, how do you define what counts as traffic in that case? Transfer between AS's? Does internal traffic within AS's count? Does traffic between entities within the same AS count (e.g traffic from one AWS customer to another, or traffic from a Netflix OCA to an ISP?) I'm skeptical of any entities ability to fully measure the throughput of the internet even remotely accurately. The closest estimate you'll likely get is if you're a transit provider able to measure data transfer, and even then you'll be lucky to extrapolate within the correct order of magnitude from that for total global inter-AS traffic.

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Re:AWS is playing chess, Cloudflare is playing Go by collinmanderson on Saturday October 23, 2021 @09:36PM (#28974116)

The 18% likely comes from here (% of websites) https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/proxy

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Re:AWS is playing chess, Cloudflare is playing Go by kazen44 on Monday October 18, 2021 @01:25PM (#28908047)

also, what is considered internet Traffic? lots of private wan's also exist. which complicates this comparison even further.

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