[busymom0]

Someone answered this yesterday. CloudFront is good for video and large download assets (plus very low margins) but not for images and smaller stuff which Fastly is much faster at:

https://www.streamingmediablog.com/2020/05/fastly-amazon-hom...

[notyourday]

It is the edge control. You would be amazed how easy it is to do seemingly complicated things at scale if you can do them per request at the edge.