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ranman on Oct 18, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: AWS is playing chess, Cloudflare is playing Go

Doesn’t discord use GCP?

judge2020 on Oct 18, 2021 | [–]

They extensively use Cloudflare, other than for voice channels which don't use CF's tcp/udp proxy (to minimize ping, since GCP is usually peered better globally).

notamy on Oct 18, 2021 | | [–]

Nitpick: Voice/video is run on dedicated hardware from various providers, since GCP networking costs would be obscene for that.

Jamie9912 on Oct 18, 2021 | [–]

GCP proxied by Cloudflare, yes

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