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The issue with Google launching these services is you don't know when they was/will be blocked in China. Not really a global competitor to CloudFront/Azure IMHO.

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Cloudfront is not available in China. We had to implement a small CDN for a large ecommerce website. What we did was use geo-ip route 53 and route chinese ips to load balanced nginx instances caching the cloudfront cdn.

What compounds the problem with China is that the chinese are very much used to requesting an english language variant of the webstore as its often cheaper. This circumvents the CDN however as all stateful requests are routed to foreign servers making their experience really slow.

Also there's the chinese web license process that you have to go through to even host a website in china.

I've a few instances in aliyun (alibaba cloud) to monitor the traffic from time to time, Cloudfront works for me now, while googleapis.com is blocked.

I cannot convince myself not to use a politically neutral company (or China friendly) like AWS, Azure.. when I am considering the CDN service.

Oh yeah its accessable from China. But I meant that there is no cloudfront edge region in China so chinese customers must cross the firewall and it is really really slow for them.

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