9. “By using the Windows Azure Content Delivery Network, we proved that
our service was reliable. We retained our current customers, won back
customers who had previously left, and gained new customers…
With the Content Delivery Network, we have an 80 percent increase
in performance in some locations.”
“Where Bing Maps had the high-quality images that customers expect, it is
now also able to offer the performance that customers expect. By using
the Content Delivery Network, we proved that our service was reliable.
We retained our current customers, won back customers who had
previously left, and gained new customers.”
“We don’t have to add servers if we bring on a new enterprise customer;
we don’t have to add servers if we need to add petabytes of data; we just
take advantage of a system that distributes content to additional nodes
and lets us grow elastically and lets us regulate our costs.”
Source: Customer comments on blogs
Re-emphasize benefits and value prop in Customers words
Comparing with AWS Cloudfront:Windows Azure CDN has better performance compared to AWS CloudFront globally. (E.g.: Measurements done by 3rd party showed download speeds were 30% to 200% faster on our CDN vs. CloudFront) Track record/Experience - Windows Azure CDN is built on the same network infrastructure that supports highly available services such as Windows Update and Bing Maps serving hundreds of millions of devices and users every day.Windows Azure CDN allows caching to be more responsive to changes in cached content by supporting query strings. AWS CloudFront does not support query strings.
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