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Akamai Technologies

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1998

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Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)

49 reviews

Akamai's Content Delivery Network (CDN) solutions are designed to enhance the speed, reliability, and security of digital content delivery across the globe. By leveraging Akamai's extensive network of servers, businesses can ensure that their websites, applications, and media content are delivered swiftly and efficiently to users, regardless of their location. Key Features and Functionality: - App & API Performance: Akamai offers solutions like API Acceleration to improve the performance and reliability of APIs at scale, and Ion to deliver enhanced user experiences for websites dynamically and efficiently. - Media Delivery: Services such as Adaptive Media Delivery ensure consistent, high-quality online video streaming at massive scale, while Download Delivery provides flawless distribution of large files globally. - Edge Applications: Tools like EdgeWorkers enable developers to deploy custom code at the edge, closer to users, enhancing performance and reducing latency. - Security: Akamai integrates robust security measures, including web application firewalls and DDoS mitigation, to protect content and applications from evolving threats. Primary Value and User Solutions: Akamai's CDN solutions address critical challenges faced by businesses in delivering digital content. By distributing content across a vast network of edge servers, Akamai reduces latency, minimizes the risk of downtime, and ensures a seamless user experience. This is particularly vital for industries like media and entertainment, gaming, and e-commerce, where user engagement and satisfaction are directly tied to content delivery performance. Additionally, Akamai's integrated security features safeguard against cyber threats, providing businesses with a comprehensive solution for content delivery and protection.

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Akamai Online Bot & Abuse Protection

13 reviews

Identity Cloud is a full end-to-end identity as a service (IDaaS) CIAM solution that enables companies to implement enterprise-grade identity management in a fast, flexible way.

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Akamai Prolexic Routed

11 reviews

Managed DDoS protection service for the entire data center

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Akamai Bot Manager

10 reviews

Bot Manager relies on the simple premise that bots are not all created equal. Many bots play a legitimate role in your online business strategy. Others harm your business by reducing competitive advantage, getting between you and your customers, or committing fraud. Bot Manager provides a flexible framework to manage bot traffic based on the needs of your business—to better engage with your customers, improve your security posture, and control the traffic coming to your website every day.

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Akamai Adaptive Media Player

9 reviews

The Akamai Adaptive Media Player (AMP) is designed to empower content providers to simplify their player operations while ensuring quality online media playback to their web or app-based streaming video and audio experiences. In addition to optimized adaptive bitrate playback algorithms, AMP's integrated stream protection, analytics, ad integration and closed caption support allow easy adoption of additional online media services, without the headaches of staying on top of the shifts in this rapidly changing technology landscape.

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Akamai Media Analytics

6 reviews

Media Analytics is a self-service SaaS solution designed to provide reporting for actionable insights to help support strategic decision-making. Our robust solution offers a rich variety of client-side metrics and dimensions to enable as much flexibility and granularity as needed for visibility into video performance and your audience's viewing experience.

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Akamai MFA

5 reviews

Akamai MFA is a workforce multi-factor authentication service that enhances organizational security by providing robust secondary authentication for cloud, on-premises, web-based, SaaS, and IaaS applications. By leveraging FIDO2 standards, it transforms existing smartphones into secure authentication devices, eliminating the need for physical hardware tokens. This approach offers a frictionless user experience through familiar push notifications and various secondary authentication methods. Key Features and Functionality: - Phish-Proof Authentication: Utilizes FIDO2 standards to provide end-to-end cryptography and a sealed challenge/response flow, making the authentication process resistant to phishing and social engineering attacks. - Smartphone Integration: Transforms existing smartphones into secure authentication devices, eliminating the need for physical hardware tokens and reducing associated costs. - Configurable Authentication Factors: Offers multiple authentication methods, including phish-proof push notifications, standard push, time-based one-time passwords , and SMS, allowing organizations to tailor the authentication process to their specific needs. - Identity Provider Integration: Seamlessly integrates with leading IdP solutions such as Microsoft Azure AD, Okta, and Akamai's own IdP, facilitating easy deployment and management. - Automated User Provisioning: Utilizes System for Cross-domain Identity Management to automate user provisioning workflows, ensuring immediate reflection of directory changes and reducing administrative overhead. - Self-Service Enrollment: Provides low-friction self-service methods for end-user enrollment and device registration, enhancing user adoption and reducing the burden on administrators. Primary Value and Problem Solved: Akamai MFA addresses the critical need for secure, user-friendly, and cost-effective multi-factor authentication in modern organizations. By eliminating reliance on physical hardware tokens and leveraging existing smartphones, it reduces deployment complexity and costs. The solution's phish-proof authentication mechanisms significantly mitigate the risk of account takeovers and data breaches, thereby strengthening the organization's overall security posture. Additionally, its seamless integration with existing identity providers and support for Zero Trust security models ensure that organizations can implement robust authentication protocols without disrupting existing workflows.

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Akamai DNS Infrastructure

4 reviews

Akamai DNSi CacheServe has formed the foundation for the world's fastest and most reliable Internet networks by enabling self-defending DNS infrastructure that shields networks and subscribers from cyberthreats

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Akamai Global Traffic Management

3 reviews

Global Traffic Management, built on Akamai's Cloud Delivery Platform, is a DNS-based load balancing solution that balances traffic across all data sources, both cloud based and on premise infrastructures. It provides you a highly scalable, fault tolerant load balancing solution that ensures high performance and availability under any peak demands.

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Akamai mPulse

3 reviews

mPulse provides the capabilities for detailed performance and advanced error analysis, and correlates them directly to business metrics such as conversions, page views, and revenue.

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Lee S.
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Lee S.
Senior System Administrator @ NAKED Kitchens | Network Security, Troubleshooting
06/09/2026
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Effortless Managed Services and Outstanding Support

We appreciate having access to managed services, especially for MySQL databases, and we found the setup process far simpler than configuring a cluster manually. We rely on it as a core part of our main website stack, and integrating it with the existing systems we use every day was straightforward. Whenever we’ve needed support with our servers or databases, the team has consistently been available and quick to help.
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stefano d.
AWS & GCP Cloud Solution Architect | Senior Data Architect | System Engineer, PAM Security Specialist
04/25/2026
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Akamai Cloud Computing: Powerful IaaS and best Defense against Ddos

Akamai Cloud Computing is the best tool and service for IAAS, at the moment, in the market. Even though its UX/UI configuration interface is not very user-friendly, it remains a powerful tool for defending against DDoS attacks. Last but not least, AKAMAI has worked hard to enable AI Agentic in its tools to detect bad behaviour and perform profiling analysis, providing the best support to its protected customers.
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Shobhit A.
04/09/2026
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Enterprise Grade DNS with Strong Security Backing

Akamai Edge DNS is exceptional at its reliability and performance at scale. The platform leverages Akamai’s globally distributed network, ensuring low-latency DNS resolution and high availability even during traffic spikes or outages. Its advanced traffic management capabilities, including intelligent routing and failover, help maintain seamless user experiences.

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What is Akamai Technologies?

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. Every day, billions of people around the world connect with their favorite brands to shop online, play the latest video games, log into mobile banking apps, learn remotely, share videos with friends, and so much more. They may not know it, but Akamai is there, powering and protecting life online. Over 0 years ago, we set out to solve the toughest challenge of the early internet: the “World Wide Wait.” And we’ve been solving the internet’s toughest challenges ever since, working toward our vision of a safer and more connected world.With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for businesses to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. That’s why innovative companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences.Our leading security, compute, and delivery solutions are helping global companies make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.Devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology, we’re always pushing ground-breaking ideas and driving innovation.

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Year Founded
1998
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NASDAQ:AKAM
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www.akamai.com