On: AWS Data Transfer Price Reduction

[virtuallynathan]

That may be true, but try building a CDN on top of AWS and you'll be out of cash pretty quickly with their bandwidth prices.

[emidln → virtuallynathan]

It seems like a bad strategic decision to try to build a CDN on top of a platform that already offers a CDN while expecting to be cheaper than their economy-of-scale-driven CDN.

Not to say that you couldn't build a CDN on AWS, but if you're going to do it, wanting to do it for cheaper than someone who doesn't pay markup on the same instances (Amazon) isn't realistic.

[virtuallynathan → emidln]

This is true, but not all content is fit for CloudFront or other CDNs.