Akamai Media Services Live

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Akamai's Media Services Live focuses on bringing reliability and scale to live streaming. The new, liveOrigin capabilities are designed to operate in concert to support the same level of quality for live video streaming (live event and 24/7 live linear) expected of traditional broadcast television. Content providers can enjoy peace of mind knowing they can deliver high-quality streaming that pleases their viewers every time. The Media Services Live solution is fully compatible Akamai's Adaptive Media Delivery.

Akamai EdgeWorkers

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Akamai EdgeWorkers is a serverless computing solution that enables developers to deploy custom JavaScript code at the edge of Akamai's global network. By executing code closer to end-users, EdgeWorkers reduces latency and enhances application performance. This platform allows for real-time data processing, personalized content delivery, and dynamic user experiences without the need to manage underlying infrastructure. Leveraging the V8 JavaScript engine across thousands of global points of presence, EdgeWorkers provides a scalable and efficient environment for running lightweight workloads. Key Features and Functionality: - Serverless Edge Computing: Deploy and execute custom JavaScript functions at the edge without managing servers. - Global Distribution: Utilize Akamai's extensive network to run code in close proximity to users, minimizing latency. - Real-Time Processing: Process and transform data instantly at the edge, enabling dynamic content delivery. - Scalability: Automatically scale to handle traffic spikes and growth without additional infrastructure management. - Integration with EdgeKV: Access data locally at the edge using Akamai's EdgeKV for high-speed read operations. Primary Value and Problem Solved: EdgeWorkers addresses the challenge of delivering fast, personalized, and reliable digital experiences by moving compute operations closer to the end-user. This approach reduces the need for round trips to origin servers, thereby decreasing latency and improving application responsiveness. By offloading computations to the edge, organizations can optimize their applications, enhance user engagement, and scale efficiently without the complexities of traditional server management.

Akamai IP Accelerator

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Akamai's IP Application Accelerator is a managed service designed to enhance the performance, security, and availability of non-cacheable, IP-based applications. By leveraging Akamai's global edge network, it ensures that applications are delivered swiftly and reliably to users worldwide, regardless of their location or device. This solution is particularly beneficial for enterprises aiming to optimize application delivery without the substantial capital expenditures associated with private WAN infrastructures. Key Features and Functionality: - Dynamic Mapping: Utilizes real-time monitoring of internet conditions and server loads to direct user requests to the optimal edge server, ensuring consistent high availability. - Transport Protocol Optimization: Segments TCP transmissions and applies proprietary techniques to reduce latency and improve data transfer efficiency. - Packet Replication: Mitigates packet loss by replicating packets and transmitting them along multiple network paths, enhancing application reliability. - Route Optimization: Employs Akamai's SureRoute technology to identify and utilize the fastest, least congested paths across the internet, bypassing traditional routing limitations. - Security Enhancements: Features such as Fast IP Blocking (FIPB allow for the filtering of traffic from specified sources, protecting origin servers from potential attacks. - Support for IPv6: Ensures compatibility with modern internet protocols, allowing seamless access for users on IPv6 networks. Primary Value and Problem Solved: The IP Application Accelerator addresses the challenges of delivering high-performance, secure, and reliable IP-based applications over the public internet. Traditional internet routing can introduce latency, packet loss, and security vulnerabilities, especially for applications that cannot be cached. By optimizing data transmission paths, reducing latency, and enhancing security measures, Akamai's solution ensures that enterprises can provide a superior user experience without the need for costly private network infrastructures. This is particularly advantageous for businesses with globally distributed users, as it guarantees consistent application performance and availability across diverse geographic regions.

Akamai Client-Side Protection & Compliance

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Client-Side Protection & Compliance helps protect against end-user data exfiltration and shield websites from JavaScript threats. It analyzes script behavior in real time, provides actionable insights in a single dashboard view, and delivers alerts to mitigate harmful script activity. Designed for PCI DSS v4.0, the solution helps businesses meet new script security requirements and safeguards against client-side attacks.

Akamai Secure Internet Access Enterprise

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Akamai Secure Internet Access Enterprise is a cloud-based DNS firewall designed to safeguard organizations by proactively blocking malicious DNS requests, including those associated with malware, ransomware, phishing, and DNS data exfiltration. This solution ensures that all users and devices, whether on or off the corporate network, can securely connect to the internet without the need for on-premises appliances, thereby reducing security complexity and management overhead. Key Features and Functionality: - Real-Time Threat Intelligence: Utilizes Akamai's extensive internet visibility to identify and block access to malicious domains and websites, providing up-to-date protection against emerging threats. - Flexible Inspection Levels: Offers customizable security measures, including recursive DNS-only inspection and proxy capabilities for risky web traffic, allowing organizations to tailor protection to their specific needs. - DNS Data Exfiltration Prevention: Detects and blocks low-throughput DNS data exfiltration attempts in real-time, safeguarding sensitive information from unauthorized transfer. - Shadow IT Control: Identifies and manages unsanctioned applications within the network by controlling applications based on risk scores or application types, enhancing overall security posture. - Multi-Device Protection: Secures various devices, including Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and ChromeOS, with lightweight client applications, ensuring comprehensive coverage across diverse IT environments. Primary Value and Problem Solved: Akamai Secure Internet Access Enterprise addresses the critical need for organizations to protect their users and devices from internet-based threats, regardless of their location. By leveraging real-time threat intelligence and eliminating the need for on-premises hardware, it simplifies security management, reduces complexity, and enhances the overall security posture. This solution effectively mitigates risks associated with malware, ransomware, phishing, and data exfiltration, ensuring secure and reliable internet access for all users and devices.

Akamai Hunt

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Akamai Hunt is a managed threat hunting service designed to detect and eliminate the most elusive security threats within an organization's network. By integrating with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and leveraging Akamai's extensive global threat intelligence, Hunt provides continuous monitoring and expert analysis to identify and remediate advanced threats that often bypass traditional security measures. This proactive approach ensures that organizations can swiftly address vulnerabilities, enhance their IT infrastructure, and maintain robust security postures. Key Features and Functionality: - Real-Time Threat Detection: Utilizes machine learning and AI to process data, enabling the identification of ongoing and emerging security events. - Expert Analysis and Investigation: A dedicated team of security professionals investigates each detected incident to confirm its legitimacy, reducing false positives and alert fatigue. - Comprehensive Alerts and Reporting: Provides instant notifications for critical incidents and delivers monthly executive-level threat reports, offering detailed insights into the security landscape. - Guided Mitigation Assistance: Collaborates closely with internal teams to remediate identified threats, virtually patch vulnerabilities, and strengthen IT environments. - Seamless Integration: Operates in conjunction with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation without requiring additional configurations or agent deployments, ensuring immediate value upon activation. Primary Value and Problem Solved: Akamai Hunt addresses the challenge of detecting and mitigating sophisticated threats that evade conventional security defenses. By combining advanced analytics, global threat intelligence, and expert human oversight, it empowers organizations to proactively identify and neutralize security risks, thereby reducing potential damage and ensuring business continuity. This service acts as an extension of an organization's security team, providing continuous monitoring and rapid response capabilities without adding operational overhead.

Akamai Essential Compute

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Akamai's Essential Compute offers a versatile suite of cloud computing solutions tailored to meet diverse application requirements. Users can select from Shared CPU, Dedicated CPU, or High Memory plans, ensuring optimal performance and cost-effectiveness for workloads ranging from lightweight ephemeral tasks to resource-intensive applications. With deployment options across more than 25 global regions, Essential Compute provides predictable pricing, native private networking, and a 99.99% uptime guarantee, facilitating seamless scalability and reliability. Key Features and Functionality: - Shared CPU Instances: Ideal for development environments and general-purpose workloads with lower performance demands, starting at $5 per month. - Dedicated CPU Instances: Provide consistent, uninterrupted compute power for high-performance, resource-intensive applications, with CPU cores ranging from 2 to 64 and memory from 4 to 512 GB. - High Memory Plans: Designed for memory-intensive applications, offering dedicated CPUs with increased RAM (24 to 300 GB) without additional storage or virtual CPUs. - Flexible Deployment: Instances can be deployed and managed via Cloud Manager UI, API, CLI, and supported developer tools, allowing easy resizing as application needs evolve. - Integrated Backups: Automated daily, weekly, and biweekly snapshots ensure data retention and recovery. - Managed Kubernetes Support: Essential Compute nodes can be added to managed Kubernetes clusters using Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE). - Bundled Network Transfer: Offers cost savings on egress with Akamai Cloud’s pooled network transfer system. Primary Value and User Solutions: Essential Compute empowers businesses to deploy and scale applications efficiently by providing tailored compute resources that align with specific workload demands. The flexibility to choose between Shared CPU, Dedicated CPU, and High Memory plans ensures that users can optimize performance and cost according to their unique requirements. With a global presence, predictable pricing, and robust support, Essential Compute addresses the challenges of scalability, reliability, and cost management in cloud infrastructure, enabling users to focus on innovation and growth.

Akamai App Platform

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The Akamai App Platform is a self-service solution designed to streamline the development, deployment, and management of cloud-native applications on Kubernetes. Leveraging the Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE), it offers developers an intuitive interface and pre-configured templates, enabling the rapid creation and scaling of applications without requiring in-depth Kubernetes expertise. Key Features and Functionality: - Simplified Deployment: Utilize Golden Path templates and user-friendly workflows to build and manage containers through a straightforward web interface. - Automated Maintenance: Custom operators automatically handle security patches, tool updates, and integrations, reducing manual maintenance efforts. - Multi-Tenant Team Management: Easily create isolated development environments with automatic namespace separation, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) configuration, and integrated tool access. - Integrated Tools: Access private Git repositories, store images in a private registry, and expose applications publicly with minimal clicks. - Comprehensive Monitoring: Gain instant access to logs, metrics, and traces powered by Loki®, Prometheus®, and Grafana®. - Production-Ready CI/CD Pipelines: Leverage pre-built integrations with tools like Argo CD®, Gitea®, Harbor®, and Knative® for efficient continuous integration and deployment. Primary Value and Solutions Provided: The Akamai App Platform addresses the complexities associated with Kubernetes by offering a user-friendly environment that accelerates application deployment by up to 40%. It empowers development teams to focus on feature development rather than infrastructure management, enhances security through automated updates, and facilitates efficient team collaboration with multi-tenant management capabilities. By integrating essential tools and providing comprehensive monitoring, it ensures that applications are not only deployed swiftly but also maintained effectively, leading to improved performance and scalability.

Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE)

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Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE) is a fully managed container orchestration service that simplifies the deployment, management, and scaling of containerized applications using Kubernetes. Designed for developers and businesses seeking an efficient and cost-effective Kubernetes solution, LKE offers a user-friendly interface and predictable pricing, enabling users to focus on application development without the complexities of managing Kubernetes infrastructure. Key Features and Functionality: - Managed Control Plane: LKE provides a CNCF-certified Kubernetes control plane at no additional cost, handling the orchestration and management of clusters to ensure high availability and reliability. - Automatic Scaling and Resource Optimization: The platform supports horizontal cluster autoscaling, dynamically adjusting resources in real-time based on workload demands, thereby optimizing performance and cost efficiency. - Integrated Load Balancing: LKE automatically provisions NodeBalancers to distribute traffic across the cluster, enhancing application performance and reliability. - Persistent Storage Solutions: Seamless integration with Linode's Block Storage and Object Storage services allows for scalable and reliable data storage options within Kubernetes clusters. - High Availability Options: For enterprise needs, LKE offers an LKE-Enterprise tier with dedicated resources, enhanced scalability, and advanced security features, including a 99.9% SLA for worker clusters and support for over 500 nodes. Primary Value and Problem Solved: LKE addresses the challenges of deploying and managing Kubernetes by automating complex tasks such as cluster configuration, node provisioning, and maintenance. This automation reduces the operational burden on development teams, allowing them to concentrate on building and scaling applications. With transparent pricing and a managed control plane, LKE offers a cost-effective and efficient solution for businesses aiming to leverage Kubernetes without the overhead of managing the underlying infrastructure.