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Edge networks become payment enforcers
Contemporaneous reporting described large CDN/edge vendors attaching 402 enforcement to existing traffic. Primary-source confirmation varies by vendor; zFinia records Cloudflare’s own posts as TIER_A and third-party CDN claims as weaker until official docs exist.
Why it matters
Watch official AWS/Cloudflare/Fastly docs, not aggregator headlines.
Source: zFinia retrospective synthesis