CDN providers
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Updated at August 26, 2025
CDN provider is a content delivery service provider.
Yandex Cloud CDN supports the following content delivery network providers:
- Yandex Cloud CDN based on Yandex own technology. It is used by default.
- EdgeCDN based on the external infrastructure of our partner, EdgeCenter.
Both providers offer the same capabilities and support the same interfaces for resource and CDN origin management: the management console, CLI, Terraform, and API.
However, the metrics providers send to Yandex Monitoring are different:
This means the dashboards in Monitoring will also differ accordingly. For more information, see Viewing CDN resource statistics.
You do not need to activate a provider in your folder.
Warning
When creating each CDN resource and each origin group, they get assigned a specific provider. You cannot change the assigned provider.