Amazon CloudFront has bad bandwidth in China. Any suggestions?

Question

Hi I'm using Amazon CloudFront (Files are on S3) for my SaaS application and I'm suffering from slow connections in China. I haven't found too much information on this matter, any one faced this kind of problems?

I've contact ChinaCache maybe to utilize them for CDN in China but they have yet to reply.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Almost certainly a GFW issue, gov throttles/blocks/interferes with most services that it deems to be in competition to Chinese business as the quality gap is generally quite large and the Chinese business would struggle to compete.

If you go with a local CDN remember that there is little in the way of data protection and if you are running SAAS you customers may not be happy with having their data stored on Chinese servers (depending on the nature of you app of course)