CDN Streaming Showdown: Fastly vs. Akamai vs. Cloudflare vs. CloudFront
When you hit play on a video, you don't think about the army of servers that rush to deliver it. But for anyone running a streaming platform, choosing a CDN (Content Delivery Network) is crucial. Latency, throughput, and cache-hit ratio can be the difference between smooth streaming and angry users smashing the refresh button. Here's a practical, human-friendly look at four heavyweights in the streaming space: Fastly, Akamai, Cloudflare, and AWS CloudFront.