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by solatic 2762 days ago
Seems like Amazon's response to GCE Premium Network Service tier. Instead of user traffic going over regional ISPs until it hits the AWS region, user traffic hits an AWS PoP and then uses Amazon's backbone network to get to the AWS region running your service, leading to marked improvements in multi-region deployments.

With CloudFlare, you're limited to what you can run in a CloudFlare PoP (i.e. CloudFlare workers).
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saurik 2762 days ago
(CloudFront, not CloudFlare.)

So CloudFront added support for custom origins a while back (making it more like normal CDNs) and with Lambda@Edge you could direct the user to the correct region.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery...

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