Amazon Launches CDN As It Enters A Highly Competitive Field
This story was written by Rafat Ali.
This was to be expected after Amazon's (NSDQ: AMZN) S3 storage service and EC2 on-demand computing service already leading the way in cloud computing. Now it is launching a content delivery network, supposed to launch later this year, that will take on the likes of big incumbents like Amazon and Limelight (NSDQ: LLNW) and also the slew of starts that have gotten funding over the last two years. As to what differentiation the book giant will have besides the big network, it is going to be charging its customers on usage instead of the long-term contracts current players foist on their clients, as Om explains here. There will be no long term contracts and it will publish the prices online, something of a rarity in the famously-obtuse sector.
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels also explains the service on his blog here:
By Rafat Ali