AWS’s Egregious Egress
July 23, 2021 2:01PM
Amazon’s mission statement is: “We strive to offer our customers the lowest possible prices, the best available selection, and the utmost convenience.” And yet, when it comes to egress, their prices are far from the lowest possible....
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Comparing Serverless Performance for CPU Bound Tasks
July 09, 2018 7:08AM
Cloudflare Workers
JavaScript
Speed & Reliability
AWS
Serverless
This post is a part of an ongoing series comparing the performance of Cloudflare Workers with other Serverless providers. In our past tests we intentionally chose a workload which imposes virtually no CPU load (returning the current time)....
Thoughts on the AWS outage: making the cloud more resilient to failure
June 30, 2012 8:56PM
AWS
EC2
Outage
A huge storm rolled across the eastern United States last night, topping trees and knocking out power. Amazon Web Services (AWS) had one of their primary data centers in Virginia lose power....
Zone Apex / Naked Domain / Root Domain CNAME Support for Amazon EC2, Google App Engine and Other Cloud Hosts
May 16, 2011 8:34PM
AWS
EC2
CNAME
Reliability
CloudFlare now supports CNAME Flattening, which is a better solution to this same problem. Read more in our knowledge base....