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Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)

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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 Cloud Block Storage

3 reviews

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.

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Akamai Download Delivery

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Download Delivery is a reliable, high performance file-based content delivery solution optimized to deliver large (>100MB) file-based content over the Internet. It is built on the globally distributed Akamai Intelligent Platform, for superior capacity, scalability, availability, and performance.

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Akamai App & API Protector

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Web Application Protector is designed to safeguard web assets from web application and DDoS attacks, while improving performance.

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Akamai NetStorage

2 reviews

NetStorage is a highly scalable, feature-rich cloud storage solution, offering automatic geo-distributed content replication for resiliency, high availability, and performance

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Akamai Edge DNS

2 reviews

Fast DNS provides an authoritative DNS service that offloads DNS resolution from your infrastructure to the cloud. Built on the Akamai Intelligent Platform, Fast DNS is architected for both performance and availability and can maintain a fast DNS experience even through the largest DDoS attacks. Fast DNS can be deployed as a primary or secondary solution with optional DNSSEC support to protect against DNS forgery and manipulation

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Akamai Enterprise Threat Protector

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Enterprise Threat Protector (ETP) enables security teams to proactively identify, block, and mitigate targeted threats such as malware, ransomware, phishing, and data exfiltration that exploit the Domain Name System (DNS). Powered by real-time intelligence from Akamai Cloud Security Intelligence and Akamai's proven, globally distributed recursive DNS platform, Enterprise Threat Protector efficiently delivers security, control, and visibility to the enterprise while easily integrating with your existing network defenses.

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Akamai Adaptive Media Delivery

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Akamai's Adaptive Media Delivery is optimized for Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) streaming to provide a high-quality, secure viewing experience across the broad variety of network types, fixed or mobile, at varying connection speeds. Built on the Akamai Intelligent Platform, Adaptive Media Delivery provides superior scalability, reliability, availability, and reach.

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Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

2 reviews

Guardicore is a data center and cloud security company that protects your organization’s core assets using flexible, quickly deployed, and easy to understand micro-segmentation controls.

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Akamai API Security

2 reviews

Akamai API Security is a comprehensive solution designed to protect APIs throughout their entire lifecycle, from development to production. It offers continuous discovery, testing, analytics, and response capabilities, ensuring robust security for APIs across diverse environments, including multi-cloud, multi-CDN, and hybrid infrastructures. This platform-agnostic solution is tailored for large, distributed enterprises, providing visibility and protection for both north–south and east–west API traffic. Key Features and Functionality: - API Discovery and Inventory: Automatically identifies and catalogs all APIs, including shadow and zombie APIs, as well as integrations with AI services like LLMs and GenAI models. - Risk Assessment and Posture Management: Evaluates APIs against the OWASP API Security Top 10 risks, detects misconfigurations, and identifies data exposure, particularly concerning sensitive information such as Personally Identifiable Information (PII). - Automated Security Testing: Integrates into CI/CD pipelines to perform over 200 dynamic tests that simulate malicious traffic and business logic abuse, facilitating a shift-left approach to security. - Runtime Protection and Anomaly Detection: Monitors API traffic in real-time to detect anomalies, data leakage, bot activity, scraping, account takeovers (ATO), and API-layer DDoS attacks. - Enterprise-Scale Operations: Supports deployment across SaaS, hybrid, and on-premises environments, including multi-CDN and multi-gateway architectures, ensuring scalability and flexibility. Primary Value and Problem Solved: Akamai API Security addresses the critical need for comprehensive API protection in today's digital landscape, where APIs are integral to business operations but also expand the attack surface. By providing continuous discovery, rigorous testing, and real-time monitoring, it enables organizations to identify vulnerabilities, enforce compliance, and respond swiftly to threats. This proactive approach mitigates risks associated with API abuse, data breaches, and compliance violations, thereby safeguarding sensitive data and maintaining business continuity.

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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