[bababava]

It's akamai, the IBM of CDNs, all marketing... they still exist because for many CTO/CIO akamai was a choice of someone that left years ago, why risk it on fastly or cloudflare or CloudFront or front door if akamai ticks along as long as you just want a dumb CDN (and ignore their attempts to catch up with modern edge)

[mathattack]

There are high switching costs, and every time a competitor has an outage it makes the argument that much tougher. (You don’t get fired if the technology your predecessor chose has an outage. You might if the one you choose does.) Eventually the incumbents crumble but it takes a long time.