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AWS tends to pick locations based on cost rather than their proximity to major Internet hubs, so the number of physical locations they actually have for most of their services is deceptive. They only have 9 available regions, and their latency is going to be much higher than most other providers that are located right by major Internet hubs instead in the middle of nowhere. We're a company (dedicated hosting provider) with only a team of 5 people, and we already have colo in 7 locations, which has them handily beat in North America and matched in Europe. There are also several VPS providers and resellers who simply rent dedicated servers from multiple companies like us with more locations than AWS. I'm looking at the website of one of our clients now who has 20 meaningful locations. Akamai absolutely destroys Cloud Front and everyone else in terms of presence, and a number of other CDNs have them handily beat. Neither AWS nor Cloud Front are anywhere near being leaders in terms of meaningful geographical (i.e. network) presence.