FWIW it too seemed to be down while Mirai was hitting it, the attacks just mostly stopped after the whole Akamai thing.
Are they also beta testing a Cloudflare like service? Or is this more likely to stay in this one niche?
Targeted at news sites specifically.
Right. The question is whether that is a permanent limitation, or if they might open it up more broadly in the future. The diagrams in the write up show that it's a global caching proxy, so not very different from Cloudflare.
If you use GCP, you're using this system.
Google cloud CDN maybe, but it isn't clear if you can front arbitrary (non gce) sites with it. Or it if includes the ddos mitigation.
Seems like an expansion of the profiling like service disguised as what you said.