[Abishek_Muthian]

Isn't everything harder at scale? That's not a barrier for entry though.

[Sohcahtoa82]

Building a CDN absolutely is hard to do at scale.

You can't build a Cloudflare competitor in AWS/Azure/Linode/DO/etc. You need your own data centers. Multiple of them across the country, ideally around the world if you want to serve the whole world.

This is insanely hard.

[andrewnyr]

for a global cdn... it quite literally is

[Abishek_Muthian]

Point taken, For a Global CDN - scale is the point of entry.