Akamai Cloud Wrapper is a solution designed to enhance origin offload and reduce cloud egress costs by providing a dedicated caching layer between cloud infrastructures and the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform. By caching content closer to end users, Cloud Wrapper minimizes direct requests to origin servers, ensuring high availability and consistent performance, even during traffic spikes. Key Features and Functionality: - Custom Caching Layer: Cloud Wrapper acts as a dedicated caching layer around cloud infrastructures, offloading origin requests and serving more content directly from Akamai's network. - Scalability and Availability: With automatic replication across multiple locations, Cloud Wrapper ensures high availability and consistent performance during traffic surges. - Integration with Akamai Services: Seamlessly integrates with Akamai's delivery services, supporting various deployment models and enhancing overall content delivery performance. - Multi-CDN Support: Provides a cloud caching layer that supports multi-CDN infrastructures, reducing egress costs and maintaining shared cacheability. - Enhanced Reporting: Offers a reporting dashboard in Akamai Control Center to monitor offload statistics and manage footprint configurations effectively. Primary Value and Problem Solved: Cloud Wrapper addresses the challenges of high cloud egress costs and performance degradation due to frequent origin server requests. By caching content closer to end users, it reduces the need for direct origin access, leading to significant cost savings and improved user experiences. This solution is particularly beneficial for organizations managing large content libraries, live streaming, or operating in multi-CDN environments, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal performance.