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Isn’t AWS Global Accelerator more like CloudFlare Argo, rather than CloudFlare Workers?



No, the equivalent Clouflare service is Spectrum, which is tellingly expensive at $1/GB (!) than AWS Ubiquity / Global Accelerator.

Cloudflare Argo is "more like" AWS Edge-optimized API Gateway.


These terms are (or the lack of terms is) pretty horrible: Ubiquity, Argo, Spectrum, Accelerator. Sounds like names given to ironic sci-fi story characters.


If we are nitpicking, then I am compelled to point out that "ironic" doesn't mean what you may think it does: https://medium.com/@frithahookway/the-ironic-misuse-of-irony...


I think we could debate this.

> irony (ˈaɪənɪ) adj: of, resembling, or containing iron.

In all seriousness, if we want to get nitpicking let's go back to the fact that the word comes from the Greek eirōneia, which means feigned ignorance, which in turn comes from the Greek eirōn, dissembler. I'd then argue that naming things silly names can be called ironic if the story world feigns ignorance of them being silly.


Point taken (:

> I think we could debate this.

Wouldn't be worth both our time though.


Yes, the whole point is to absorb user traffic into their own backbone in the first-ish mile rather than let it travel across public Internet up to last-ish mile.




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