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by toddmorey 2015 days ago
Netlify maintains its own edge network that's actually deployed across various clouds. You are right that Netlify uses AWS lambdas to power Netlify Functions, but that was chosen for the wide support AWS lambda enjoys as a standard. The upcoming edge handlers (in beta) execute javascript directly on Netlify edge nodes worldwide.
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Yeh, but Netlify also has broken HTTP/2 prioritization whereas Cloudflare has working prioritization

There's also a big difference between deploying CDN nodes at the Edge as CloudFlare does and deploying ‘Edge Nodes’ in other cloud hosting providers which won't really be at the edge.