Amazon’s New CDN Offering - Cheap CDN For New The Masses

Dan Rayburn has a great post on the new Amazon CDN offering.

This is a major indicator and validation of the changing CDN landscape to support the growing modern web.  In talking with BitGravity at the GigaOm Mobilize conference yesterday they agree that good things are happening.  I don’t think we will see the “death of the CDNs” anytime soon but certainly a next generation or modern media web version of CDNs are coming.

Here are some snips from Dan’s post regarding Amazon’s new offering.

When released, the yet to be named product offering will offer HTTP only delivery for objects, both video and non-video related. The offering won’t support streaming, live broadcasting, or provide many of the other products and services that video content owners need. While those are potential features that Amazon may offer down the road, they real story here is that Amazon is going to offer a high performance method of distributing content with low latency and high data transfer rates. The service will be cheap, rock-solid and targeted to the masses, just like the other AWS products are. … the new service will be like S3 and EC2 in that it will require no contracts, no commitments and customers will only pay for what they use.

Objects must be stored on S3 and initially, the service will not be able to pull content from origin storage on another network. For some, this will be a deal breaker. But for the average customer Amazon is targeting with this, the S3 offering is cheap and reliable. The network will deliver content in North America, Europe and Asia and additional details on the number of POPs and locations will be released by Amazon at a later time. Amazon is “currently working with a small group of private beta customers” for the new service and will provide more details on the offering very shortly.