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tyingq
Are they also beta testing a Cloudflare like service? Or is this more likely to stay in this one niche?
the_common_man
Targeted at news sites specifically.
tyingq
Right. The question is whether that is a permanent limitation, or if they might open it up more broadly in the future. The diagrams in the write up show that it's a global caching proxy, so not very different from Cloudflare.
mikecb
If you use GCP, you're using this system.
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tyingq
Google cloud CDN maybe, but it isn't clear if you can front arbitrary (non gce) sites with it. Or it if includes the ddos mitigation.
Fnoord
Seems like an expansion of the profiling like service disguised as what you said.
mikecb
This is what protected Brian Krebs pro bono after traffic grew too big for Akamai.

Great talk about it at Enigma earlier this year: https://youtu.be/ifp8l2yx7JA

ryanlol
FWIW it too seemed to be down while Mirai was hitting it, the attacks just mostly stopped after the whole Akamai thing.