Looks like a big deal. Is this basically paving the way to free cross-cloud connectivity?
I wonder why they would only do this for private networks and not for public traffic. For example, AWS is still not part of the Bandwidth Alliance [1], so if you put a 3rd party CDN in front of AWS you can still end up paying a lot more in egress fees compared to using their own offerings.
Maybe private interconnects are just much easier to cap/control/attribute, but it feels like an interesting split.
> For example, AWS is still not part of the Bandwidth Alliance
Why would they be. That list hasn't really been growing. It's not too useful and gets tied to Cloudflare.
Names like Azure and Google you see there don't really offer free bandwidth either.
> I wonder why they would only do this for private networks
It is not just private networks but those they specifically peer with = has physical cables / networks connecting. This makes it well maintained and "cheap".
sagiba•41m ago
I wonder why they would only do this for private networks and not for public traffic. For example, AWS is still not part of the Bandwidth Alliance [1], so if you put a 3rd party CDN in front of AWS you can still end up paying a lot more in egress fees compared to using their own offerings.
Maybe private interconnects are just much easier to cap/control/attribute, but it feels like an interesting split.
[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/
re-thc•37m ago
Why would they be. That list hasn't really been growing. It's not too useful and gets tied to Cloudflare.
Names like Azure and Google you see there don't really offer free bandwidth either.
> I wonder why they would only do this for private networks
It is not just private networks but those they specifically peer with = has physical cables / networks connecting. This makes it well maintained and "cheap".