2021-06-10 14:35:58
According to Intricately, in 2020 89% of customers use CloudFlare, Amazon CloudFront and Akamai CDNs. These are content delivery networks (CDNs) being used by many popular websites that have a lot of traffic in the world but not everyone knows about.
CloudFlare
As one of the most used CDNs today, CloudFlare is used by famous websites like Medium, Discord or Feedly. CloudFlare has 2 data centers in Vietnam located in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
Amazon CloudFron
Amazon CloudFront is a CDN operated by a network of Amazon Web Services servers. This CDN is an important part of the Internet infrastructure responsible for managing servers spread around the globe to ensure that users from anywhere can access and download the content of web pages (texts). copies, images, etc.).
Some major websites are using Amazon CloudFront CDN such as Reuters, BBC, ESPN .
Akamai
Akamai is currently one of the largest cloud CDN providers, accounting for around 15-30% of global web traffic.
eBay, LinkedIn, PayPal… and some other big websites are using Akamai CDN.
Akamai puts many servers in Vietnam, helping to improve Internet speed in Vietnam.
Fastly
In addition to the above 3 CDNs, Fastly is also a CDN used by many websites. Fastly was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco (USA). Fastly is used by many websites such as CNN, Reddit, Twitch, New York Times …
On the evening of June 8 (Vietnam time), a power outage caused Fastly’s system to be affected, thousands of websites using the company’s CDN had errors for more than an hour, including the website. of the White House and the British government.
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