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They and Vercel both seem to be going thru a lot of growing pains. Quite a few outages over the past year.

PS: we use both (for different sites). Probably should consolidate to one.

I always assumed there is an 'underwriter' (like fastly or akamai) for these CDNs. Is that not the case?

Perhaps they're using CloudFront and providing an end user CDN on top of it. Both are partners with AWS. Both were multicloud, and it seems, aren't anymore.

I know Vercel uses AWS Lambda's behind the scenes to process web requests at least. I'd assume caching is also handled through Cloudfront by default. The place I currently work uses Fastly for caching and Vercel for hosting and it's definitely caused some issues(and much finger pointing on both of their sides) when one of those services makes a breaking change.

I’m not sure the future in this space, but I kind just wish Cloudflare and Vercel would join forces. It would make sense to me.

Cloudflare is already on the way to building out all of the features Vercel has which is exciting. Eventually their Pages product (static hosting) will integrate Workers [1] for serverside APIs.

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-pages/#oh-and-one-mor...

They lack a framework and crystal clear way to start developing apps. Nothing exists that taps their features beyond maybe Flarereact.

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