On: Google CDN Beta is already one of the fastest CDNs

[sams99]

Something that is unclear to me here, can I origin pull from anywhere? or is this purely for compute engine now?

Regarding free SSL are we talking SNI here or is this free non SNI HTTPS hosting?

[boulos → sams99]

Right now it's just compute engine (Source: cloud.google.com/cdn). I'm not sure on the SNI part, but like you I assume that's the case.

Edit: Nope! A little birdie pointed out to me that since "each HTTP(S) LB gets its own Anycast VIP, so there's no need for SNI."

[mvitorino → boulos]

That's right, since it is based on the global load balancing tech, you get a single IP for all edge locations which means you can use your own custom SSL (without the need for SNI) at no extra cost (which would cost you $500/month on AWS CloudFront).