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This has been a big issue in the Rackspace Cloud user community. There has been no support for CNAME, SSL, or invalidation, so lots of customers (including me) have looked to other providers. I moved all of my projects to Amazon Cloudfront for this reason. Hopefully with the move to Akamai, Rackspace can play some serious catch-up feature-wise.

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Interestingly, I was just brainstorming yesterday on how it could be possible to serve my jekyll blog entirely on CloudFront due to the default root object and cname support among others. http://paulstamatiou.com/amazon-cloudfront-cdn-origin-pull

Really impressed with AWS these days.

CNAME, SSL, Edge Purge (invalidation), and more are coming with the addition of Akamai to the Rackspace Cloud Files product. We're excited, too. A big reason for this new partnership is feedback received from the Rackspace Cloud user community received here: http://feedback.rackspacecloud.com.

(See this link for today's announcement: http://bit.ly/RackCloudAkamai and for ongoing updates on the partnership between Rackspace and Akamai, see http://www.rackspace.com/akamai ).

Robert J Taylor Sr Systems Engineer Rackspace Hosting robot AT rackspace DOT com

I agree, this had was showstopper for a previous project. We had briefly looked into a stop gap solution of a SSL proxy but that really negated the CDN features. I'm glad we choose to go with Amazon, because they have continued their lead in the cloud services space.

I am very glad to see Rackspace (and others) continue to expand their offering into this market.

Are you guys only delivering VOD content? Any live streaming?

Not on any public projects, but I have been experimenting with Cloudfront RMTP streaming. I'm interested to see if there are any big projects using this.

it was an ecommerce system for photographs. To be able to store and display the assets from an ssl page with out that pesky warning.

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