--- title: Akamai Cloud Block Storage Reviews meta_title: 'Akamai Cloud Block Storage Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Akamai Cloud Block Storage works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.5 review_count: 3 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-01-27' parent_category: name: Storage Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/storage-management --- # Akamai Cloud Block Storage Reviews **Vendor:** Akamai Technologies **Category:** [Block Storage Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/block-storage) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 3 ## About Akamai Cloud Block Storage Block Storage Volumes are managed independently of Linode instances. A user can attach and detach Volumes to any Linode at any time without having to reboot. If you delete a Linode then you can simply attach your Volume to another instance without data loss. ## Akamai Cloud Block Storage Reviews ### 1. Block storage **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Madai R. | Software engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Akamai Cloud Block Storage?** I like the security and stability of data, backup by blocks and avoiding losing information when a storage disk is changed or lost. **What do you dislike about Akamai Cloud Block Storage?** Configure RAID by terminal and dependency on independent disks. **What problems is Akamai Cloud Block Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Each volume performs a system, performance and backup function to always have the information up to date. ### 2. High performance cloud storage **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Darvin F. | Software engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Akamai Cloud Block Storage?** I like the ability to persist data to host, a virtual machine with details and application activity control. **What do you dislike about Akamai Cloud Block Storage?** Configuring the system is difficult, activity control and storage per terminal. **What problems is Akamai Cloud Block Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data persistence, high-frequency activity, and applications requesting high server demand. ### 3. Increase your storage capacity by attaching super fast volumes. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Akamai Cloud Block Storage?** This service helps me to increase the storage capacity of my virtual machine at a fraction of cost as compare to other available block storage providers in the cloud computing market. These are very high speed, economical, and persistent storage. The thing I like most is that the storage is independent of the virtual machine so it will persist even if the virtual machine is deleted. **What do you dislike about Akamai Cloud Block Storage?** API control is difficult and complex need to improve their system interaction with modern programming language by providing API's that do more in less coding and easy to use. **Recommendations to others considering Akamai Cloud Block Storage:** I highly recommend this block storage volume by Linode to the peoples that are tight in budget and need a high-quality storage solution **What problems is Akamai Cloud Block Storage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Extending and scaling system as per the demands that make the whole system economical, reliable, and scalable. And, I am using this to provide additional storage for web servers, REST API servers, NodeJS and Python systems. ## Akamai Cloud Block Storage Discussions - [What is Block Storage Volumes used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-block-storage-volumes-used-for) - 1 comment - [View Akamai Cloud Block Storage pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/akamai-cloud-block-storage/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-09-03+20%3A29%3A51+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=1324a1f4-e556-4491-b74f-d04984e72297&secure%5Btoken%5D=20170433278df06bb4cebc2dbfd3ccc5fa20e9f801c08fb77f7eb660495b003e&format=llm_user) ## Top Akamai Cloud Block Storage Alternatives - [DigitalOcean](https://www.g2.com/products/digitalocean/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (744 reviews) - [VMware vSAN](https://www.g2.com/products/vmware-vsan/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (274 reviews) - [E2E Cloud](https://www.g2.com/products/e2e-cloud/reviews) - 4.8/5.0 (130 reviews)