Handling Large Blobs hard
What is the purpose of a 'Multi-CDN' strategy for large media companies?
- A Resilience and Performance arbitrage. If CloudFront goes down or is slow in Asia, traffic is dynamically routed via DNS to Akamai or Fastly.
- B To confuse hackers.
- C To double the cost.
- D To compress more.
Answer: A. Resilience and Performance arbitrage. If CloudFront goes down or is slow in Asia, traffic is dynamically routed via DNS to Akamai or Fastly.
No single CDN has the best performance everywhere/everytime.
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