Per-Entity Metadata Working Group

[Tom Scavo <>]

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 7:19 PM, Cantor, Scott 
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 wrote:
> On 9/6/16 7:16 PM, Paul Caskey wrote:
>>
>> 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).
>
> 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.

Well, our initial thought was to enable AWS Elastic Load Balancer for
automatic failover. It has not been tried, however, so I don't know if
it works as advertised.

Tom