[jdorfman]

@molecule obvious to you and I. I wrote this to inform those who think it is a good idea to use S3 as a CDN, that it isn't. If we can educate a few developers then we (this awesome community of hackers) are making the web faster.

[molecule]

> If we can educate a few developers then we (this awesome community of hackers) are making the web faster.

You're not making the web faster, you're shilling for your employer by comparing their apples to a competitor's oranges and proclaiming "our competitor's oranges make bad apple sauce!"

Failure to mention CloudFront is disingenuous.

[jdorfman]

CloudFront

[fintler]

So why is the title of your post "CDN vs S3"? Shouldn't it be something like "Don't use S3 as a CDN"?

To be honest, your post feels like spam for MaxCDN.

[zwily]

Honest question: Do you actually know anyone that thinks S3 is appropriate as a CDN?

[Kudos]

Tumblr and Twitter both used to, and I've met a bunch of developers at meetups who rather than think S3 is a CDN, do not understand what a CDN is.

[kalleboo]

Using S3 for file hosting is still a better solution than using a raw box (or shared virtual hosting) which is what most people who use S3 instead of a CDN would have been doing otherwise.