Per-Entity Metadata Working Group

[Paul Caskey <>]

Agreed about that.  I would say a regular load-balanced, multi-AZ 
(availability zone) AWS setup would work fine.

I don't think a CDN adds much in that case.


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> On 9/6/16 7:16 PM, Paul Caskey wrote:
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> > To the extent that's true, then I would question the need for a CDN,
> > as opposed to a normal highly-available infrastructure (which would be
> > less expensive to operate).
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> I think the point of the CDN was not performance but in fact availability. I
> thought the issue was that InCommon wasn't comfortable providing that HA
> infrastructure, at least enough that it was thought to be worth 
> investigating
> what a CDN would offer and cost.
> 
> -- Scott