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- Premium CPU
Linode's Premium CPU instances offer high-performance computing solutions for CPU-intensive and latency-sensitive workloads. These instances run on the best available AMD EPYC™ processors, providing dedicated resources and consistent performance. They are ideal for enterprise-grade applications, video transcoding, and workloads requiring sustained CPU usage. Premium CPU plans range from 2 to 64 cores, with 4 GB to 512 GB of memory and 80 GB to 7200 GB of SSD storage. They come with bundled services like DDoS protection, domain management, and network security. Premium CPUs are designed to minimize resource contention and simplify SKU management, making them suitable for a wide range of high-demand applications, from e-commerce sites to machine learning and AI projects.
- Ion
Akamai Ion is an intelligent performance optimization solution designed to maximize user experience across digital platforms. It leverages automation and advanced controls to enhance application performance, ensuring fast and reliable content delivery. Ion integrates seamlessly with Akamai's robust cloud computing and security services, offering a comprehensive suite of tools for optimizing web and mobile applications. The solution adapts to various network conditions and device types, providing consistent performance across diverse user environments. With its focus on intelligent automation, Ion streamlines the process of performance optimization, allowing businesses to deliver superior digital experiences without extensive manual intervention.
- NodeBalancers
NodeBalancers are Linode's managed load balancing service, designed to easily scale applications and websites to handle thousands of users. They provide high availability by intelligently routing incoming requests to backend Linode instances, automatically handling load increases and ensuring optimal performance. NodeBalancers offer point-and-click configuration, built-in health monitoring, and support for any TCP-based traffic, including SSH and MySQL. They allow for seamless maintenance by enabling backend nodes to be taken in and out of rotation without dropping traffic. With simple pricing and easy deployment, NodeBalancers are an essential tool for ensuring application reliability and scalability in the cloud.
- EdgeWorkers
EdgeWorkers is a serverless edge computing solution by Akamai that enables development teams to create and deploy microservices across a vast network of distributed servers. This platform allows developers to build, test, and run custom code at the edge, closer to end-users, resulting in improved performance and reduced latency. EdgeWorkers leverages Akamai's global infrastructure to execute JavaScript-based functions, enabling real-time data processing, personalization, and dynamic content delivery. By offloading computations to the edge, EdgeWorkers helps organizations optimize their applications, enhance user experiences, and reduce the load on origin servers. This innovative solution empowers businesses to create more responsive, scalable, and efficient web applications while taking advantage of Akamai's robust and secure edge network.
- Global Traffic Management
Akamai's Global Traffic Management (GTM) is an intelligent traffic management solution designed to optimize web and mobile performance for businesses with growing user bases. It employs advanced load-balancing techniques to efficiently distribute traffic across multiple data centers, ensuring high availability and improved user experience. GTM adapts to real-time network conditions, server health, and custom business rules to direct users to the best-performing data center. This solution helps organizations maintain consistent performance, reduce latency, and enhance reliability for their online services. By leveraging Akamai's extensive global network, GTM enables businesses to scale their operations seamlessly and deliver content efficiently to users worldwide.
- API Prioritization Cloudlet
API Prioritization Cloudlet is a solution designed to prioritize visitor-traffic segments for API-driven native mobile or single-page applications. This tool allows businesses to manage and optimize their API traffic, ensuring that critical segments receive priority access during high-demand periods or traffic spikes. By implementing this cloudlet, organizations can enhance user experience, maintain service quality for key users, and efficiently allocate resources across different visitor segments. The solution integrates seamlessly with Akamai's content delivery and security services, providing a comprehensive approach to API traffic management and application performance optimization.
- Managed Databases
Linode's Managed Databases, powered by Aiven, offer a fully-managed database service that allows users to quickly deploy high-performance database clusters. This service simplifies database management by handling configurations, high availability, disaster recovery, backups, and data replication. Users can easily deploy production-ready databases using the Linode Cloud Manager, API, or CLI. The service ensures secure access by allowing users to add trusted sources, limiting data access to specific IP addresses. Daily backups are included to prevent data loss and facilitate easy restoration. Linode offers flexible plans with both dedicated and shared compute instances to support various database needs. The service supports popular databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, Redis, and more.
- Edge DNS
Akamai Edge DNS is a global domain name system (DNS) service designed to provide high scalability, security, and resilience. It offers protection against DDoS attacks and ensures high DNS responsiveness, making it an essential solution for businesses seeking to maintain a robust online presence. Edge DNS leverages Akamai's extensive network infrastructure to deliver fast and reliable DNS resolution worldwide, enhancing the performance and availability of websites and applications. This service is part of Akamai's comprehensive suite of cloud computing and security solutions, aimed at optimizing internet infrastructure for businesses of all sizes.
- Forward Rewrite Cloudlet
Forward Rewrite Cloudlet is a powerful URL management tool offered by Akamai Technologies. It enables businesses to rewrite clean or semantic URLs at the edge of the Akamai Intelligent Platform. This solution is designed to enhance application performance, improve SEO, and provide a better user experience by simplifying complex URLs into more readable and user-friendly formats. The cloudlet operates at the edge of Akamai's network, ensuring fast and efficient URL transformations without impacting the origin server. It's particularly useful for e-commerce sites, content management systems, and any web application that requires URL optimization for improved navigation and search engine visibility.
- Cloudlets
Akamai Cloudlets are value-added applications designed to enhance web experiences by bringing business logic closer to the end user. These applications run at the edge of the Akamai network, reducing the need for requests to the origin server. Cloudlets are self-serviceable and can be configured through user interfaces or APIs, providing flexibility and control to address specific business challenges.
- Content Protector
Akamai Content Protector is an advanced security solution designed to identify and prevent sophisticated web scraping attempts. It employs unique detection methods to safeguard valuable digital content from unauthorized access and theft. This tool is particularly useful for businesses that rely on proprietary content as a key asset, such as e-commerce platforms, media companies, and financial services. Content Protector helps maintain the integrity and exclusivity of digital assets by thwarting automated scraping bots and other malicious attempts to harvest data. By protecting against content scraping, businesses can preserve their competitive advantage, maintain customer trust, and ensure compliance with data protection regulations.
- DataStream
Akamai DataStream is a powerful solution that provides customers with enhanced visibility into Akamai's platform through accurate and consistent log data at scale. This product offers real-time access to detailed log information, enabling organizations to gain valuable insights into their content delivery, application performance, and security metrics. DataStream's capabilities allow businesses to make data-driven decisions, optimize their online presence, and improve overall user experience. By leveraging this tool, companies can effectively monitor and analyze their digital operations, identify potential issues, and implement proactive measures to ensure optimal performance and security across their digital ecosystem.
- Bot Manager
Akamai Bot Manager is a sophisticated security solution designed to protect businesses from malicious bot activities. It offers advanced visibility and control mechanisms to safeguard customers and operations from automated threats. The product employs cutting-edge technology to detect, analyze, and mitigate bot traffic, ensuring the integrity of web applications and APIs. Bot Manager helps organizations maintain optimal performance, reduce fraud, and preserve the quality of user experiences by distinguishing between legitimate and harmful bot activities. With its comprehensive approach to bot management, Akamai's solution enables businesses to stay ahead of evolving bot threats and maintain a secure online environment for their customers and operations.
- mPulse
Akamai mPulse is a real user monitoring (RUM) solution that enables companies to monitor, find, and fix website and application performance issues in real-time. It captures data from 100% of end users, providing in-depth visibility into every web and mobile user experience. mPulse correlates performance directly to business metrics like conversions, page views, and revenue. Key features include real-time insights, what-if analysis, actionable and customizable metrics, and third-party resource visibility. Benefits include identifying performance optimization opportunities, controlling marketing campaigns in real-time, and detecting anomalies automatically. mPulse helps organizations optimize their digital performance and improve business outcomes by providing contextual intelligence and easy-to-understand visualizations for effective decision-making across all levels of digital business.
- DNS Infrastructure
Akamai DNS infrastructure (DNSi) is a comprehensive solution for fast and reliable networks, featuring CacheServe resolvers and AuthServe on-premises authoritative servers. DNSi CacheServe resolvers optimize user experience and operational simplicity, providing low-latency responses, resiliency, and high capacity. With self-defending capabilities, they protect networks and subscribers from threats. AuthServe supports various provider communication services, email, and branded apps, enhancing internet access offerings. Deployed by over 130 ISPs and MNOs globally, DNSi serves nearly a billion subscribers, making it a foundation for many of the world's largest networks.
- Secure Internet Access Enterprise
Akamai's Secure Internet Access Enterprise is a comprehensive cybersecurity solution designed to protect organizations from internet-based threats. It leverages real-time threat intelligence and Akamai's vast internet visibility to proactively block malicious domains and websites. The service offers flexible inspection levels, from recursive DNS-only to full proxy for risky web traffic, allowing customized protection. It also includes features to prevent DNS data exfiltration, control shadow IT applications, and protect various devices with lightweight clients. This solution aims to provide robust security for enterprises, safeguarding their networks, users, and IoT devices against evolving cyber threats.
- API Gateway
Akamai API Gateway is a powerful solution that governs API traffic by authenticating, authorizing, and controlling requests from API consumers. Leveraging Akamai's cloud delivery platform, which handles over 445 billion API hits daily, it maximizes scalability and reliability. The gateway allows businesses to focus on API strategy, design, and implementation rather than building and maintaining management infrastructure. Key features include scalable access control, quota enforcement, developer tools, and seamless integration with Akamai Intelligent Platform. By pushing API logic to the edge, it offers advantages such as validating JSON Web Tokens and API keys, rejecting unauthorized requests, enforcing request limits, and protecting APIs from malicious traffic. This solution is ideal for businesses looking to enable new models, monetize data, and increase collaboration while ensuring security and performance.
- Shared CPU
Linode's Shared CPU plans offer balanced performance for a wide range of cloud applications at affordable prices. These plans are ideal for general workloads, providing generous amounts of free bundled transfer. Users can tailor configurations from 1 vCPU and 1GB RAM up to 32 vCPUs and 192GB RAM, making them suitable for personal projects, enterprise applications, websites, game servers, and container clusters. With 10 different configurations available, Shared CPU plans provide flexibility to match specific workload requirements while maintaining a balance between price and performance. These instances support popular container orchestration tools and are designed to handle most cloud computing needs efficiently.
- AccessMyLAN for FirstNet
AccessMyLAN for FirstNet is a secure remote access solution designed specifically for first responders and public safety agencies. It provides seamless and secure connectivity to mission-critical applications and resources from any location, ensuring that emergency personnel can access vital information when it matters most. This innovative solution combines the power of FirstNet's dedicated public safety network with Akamai's advanced security features, offering enhanced protection against cyber threats while maintaining high performance and reliability.
- Akamai Hunt
Akamai Hunt is a managed threat hunting service that detects and remediates the most evasive security risks in an organization's environment. It leverages the infrastructure of Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Akamai's global threat intelligence to proactively hunt for threats across critical environments, from on-premises data centers to cloud platforms. The service combines rich telemetry from the customer's environment with Akamai's global threat data to identify suspicious activities that other tools may miss. Akamai Hunt is led by security experts who investigate detections, provide detailed alerts, and assist with guided mitigation. This allows organizations to eliminate threats, virtually patch vulnerabilities, and improve IT hygiene without requiring additional agents or architecture changes.
- Akamai MFA
Akamai MFA is a robust multi-factor authentication solution designed to enhance security for businesses. It offers phish-proof, keyless, and FIDO2-supported authentication, providing a strong defense against unauthorized access. This advanced MFA system helps organizations protect their digital assets, ensure compliance, and streamline user authentication processes. Akamai MFA is part of Akamai's comprehensive security portfolio, which includes app and API security, zero trust security, and bot and abuse protection. The solution is tailored to meet the evolving security needs of modern enterprises, offering a balance between stringent security measures and user convenience. Akamai MFA is an essential tool for businesses looking to fortify their digital infrastructure against increasingly sophisticated cyber threats.
- Akamai Guardicore Segmentation
Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is a powerful Zero Trust security tool that utilizes micro-segmentation to enhance network protection and reduce risks. This innovative solution helps organizations strengthen their security posture by implementing granular access controls and isolating critical assets. By creating secure zones within data centers and cloud environments, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation effectively prevents lateral movement of threats and minimizes the potential impact of breaches. The tool offers comprehensive visibility into network traffic, enabling businesses to develop and enforce precise security policies. With its advanced features and user-friendly interface, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation empowers organizations to maintain a robust security framework while adapting to evolving cyber threats in today's complex IT landscapes.
- Moda
Moda is a clientless mobility service that provides security, visibility, and control across all SIM-enabled devices. It offers a secure internet solution for mobile business, enabling organizations to protect their mobile workforce and maintain control over their data and devices. Moda integrates seamlessly with existing infrastructure to enhance mobile security without compromising user experience or productivity.
- IP Accelerator
Akamai IP Accelerator is a cloud-based solution designed to enhance the performance, security, and availability of non-cacheable applications. It leverages Akamai's global network to optimize the delivery of dynamic content, ensuring faster response times and improved user experiences. IP Accelerator provides robust security features to protect against various online threats while maintaining high availability for critical applications. This product is particularly beneficial for businesses that rely on real-time data processing, e-commerce platforms, and other dynamic web applications where content cannot be cached. By utilizing advanced routing techniques and network optimizations, IP Accelerator helps organizations deliver their applications with speed and reliability, regardless of the end-user's location or network conditions.
- AccessMyLAN
AccessMyLAN is a clientless mobility service designed to enhance security, visibility, and control for SIM-enabled devices while providing private access to enterprise networks. This innovative solution offers a comprehensive approach to managing mobile devices and ensuring secure connectivity without the need for client-side installations. By leveraging its capabilities, organizations can effectively protect their mobile workforce, maintain oversight of device usage, and enable seamless access to corporate resources. AccessMyLAN's clientless nature simplifies deployment and management, making it an ideal choice for businesses seeking to strengthen their mobile security posture and improve operational efficiency in an increasingly mobile-centric work environment.
- App & API Protector
Akamai App & API Protector is a comprehensive security solution designed to safeguard web applications and APIs. It offers a holistic set of powerful protections that are built with customer-focused automation and simplicity in mind. The product aims to protect entire web and API estates, providing robust security measures against various threats. App & API Protector is part of Akamai's broader security offerings, which include client-side protection, compliance assistance, and protection against client-side attacks. This solution is tailored to meet the evolving security needs of businesses in the digital landscape, offering advanced features to defend against modern cyber threats while maintaining ease of use and efficiency.
- GPU
Linode's GPU compute service offers on-demand GPUs for compute-intensive workloads, including media transcoding and machine learning. The service features NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada generation cards and NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 GPUs, available in core regions across North America, Europe, and Asia. Linode provides GPU-optimized virtual machines with access to CUDA, Tensor, and RT cores for complex processing, deep learning, and media workloads. The service allows users to leverage powerful GPUs without the high cost of ownership associated with purchasing and maintaining hardware. Multiple plan types are available, offering up to four GPU cards per instance, catering to various performance needs.
- Visitor Prioritization Cloudlet
Visitor Prioritization Cloudlet is a waiting room application designed to reduce abandonment and protect websites from failure during high-traffic periods. It helps maintain business continuity for dynamic applications by placing visitors in a virtual waiting room when back-end systems approach overload. The cloudlet allows customers to control traffic accessing data center resources during surges, provide an engaging branded experience for overflow traffic, protect sites from outages during high-value events, and preserve scarce application capacity for valuable transactions. It integrates seamlessly with Akamai's content delivery network, enabling easy management and deployment without additional infrastructure investment.
- API Security
Akamai API Security is an intelligent solution designed to safeguard APIs from business abuse and data theft. This product offers comprehensive protection for APIs, which are crucial components in modern digital ecosystems. By leveraging advanced security measures, Akamai API Security helps organizations maintain the integrity of their APIs, prevent unauthorized access, and protect sensitive data. The solution is tailored to address the unique challenges of API security, ensuring that businesses can confidently expose their APIs without compromising on safety. Akamai API Security is particularly valuable for industries that heavily rely on APIs for their operations, including retail, hospitality, financial services, network operators, public sector, and media.
- IoT Connect
IoT Connect is a self-serve clientless solution designed to secure and manage communications between SIM-based devices and their associated applications. This innovative product enables businesses to build private IoT networks on demand, offering enhanced security and control over their Internet of Things infrastructure. IoT Connect streamlines the process of connecting and managing multiple IoT devices, ensuring efficient and secure data transmission. By providing a robust platform for IoT device management, Akamai's IoT Connect empowers organizations to scale their IoT deployments while maintaining high levels of security and performance. This solution is particularly valuable for businesses looking to leverage the power of IoT technology without compromising on safety or operational efficiency.
- DDoS Protection
Linode's Advanced Cloud DDoS Protection is a free, built-in security service for all customers, designed to safeguard cloud infrastructure against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. This service operates 24/7, actively detecting and mitigating threats at network layers 3 and 4. It offers automated protection without increasing latency or routing traffic to third parties. The system can intercept various attack methods, including UDP and SYN floods, ensuring that legitimate users maintain access to applications while malicious traffic is blocked. This global protection mechanism is implemented across all of Linode's data centers, providing a robust defense for customers' cloud resources.
- Prolexic
Akamai Prolexic is a comprehensive DDoS attack protection solution designed to safeguard organizations against a wide range of distributed denial-of-service attack types. This cloud-based service offers robust defense mechanisms to ensure business continuity and maintain online presence even in the face of sophisticated cyber threats. Prolexic leverages Akamai's global network and advanced mitigation techniques to provide scalable, always-on protection for websites, applications, and network infrastructure. With its ability to detect and mitigate both known and emerging DDoS attack vectors, Prolexic enables businesses to focus on their core operations without worrying about the potentially devastating impacts of DDoS attacks.
- High Memory
Linode's High Memory instances offer a cost-effective solution for running memory-intensive applications on dedicated CPUs. These instances are optimized for workloads that require large amounts of RAM without the need for increased storage or vCPUs. Ideal for in-memory databases, caches, and enterprise-level database solutions, High Memory instances provide supercharged caching and data retrieval capabilities. With 100% dedicated CPU resources and no resource contention, these instances deliver enterprise-grade performance 24/7. They enable in-memory processing of large data volumes, allowing for quick query results. Linode's High Memory plans prioritize system RAM over other resources, offering a fantastic price-to-performance ratio for memory-intensive workloads.
- Image & Video Manager
Akamai Image & Video Manager is a powerful solution for optimizing visual content across various devices and browsers. This tool enables smart video optimization, ensuring high-quality media delivery while improving performance and user experience. It's designed to help businesses efficiently manage and deliver images and videos, adapting content to different network conditions and device capabilities. The Image & Video Manager is part of Akamai's comprehensive suite of content delivery and cloud computing services, offering seamless integration with other Akamai products for enhanced digital experiences.
- Managed Security Service
Akamai Managed Security Service is a comprehensive solution that integrates proactive monitoring, fast incident response, periodic tuning, and dedicated security experts to protect organizations against sophisticated cyber threats. It offers early threat detection, actionable insights, and rapid mitigation of active threats. The service regularly updates security configurations to address the evolving threat landscape and provides a security strategy tailored to business needs. With 24/7 access to Akamai's Security Operations Command Center (SOCC), customers benefit from expert-crafted defense and unified insights. The service supports Akamai cloud security solutions to prevent harmful bot activity, large-scale DDoS attacks, and script vulnerabilities. Additional features include in-depth analyses, enhanced advisory reports, and unlimited access to Akamai University online classes for self-sufficiency.
- NetStorage
NetStorage is a cloud-based storage solution designed to meet the demands of online content delivery. It offers features that simplify and optimize cloud-based online storage, making it an ideal choice for businesses looking to streamline their content delivery processes. NetStorage provides a robust platform for storing and managing digital assets, ensuring efficient distribution across Akamai's global network. This solution is particularly suited for media delivery, offering scalability and reliability for handling large volumes of content. With NetStorage, organizations can benefit from improved performance, enhanced security, and simplified content management, all while leveraging Akamai's extensive infrastructure to deliver content to users worldwide.
- VPC
Akamai's Private Networking is an IaaS solution that enables users to create isolated networks for secure communication between their Akamai compute resources. This service offers both VLAN (Layer 2) and VPC (Layer 3) options, allowing for flexible network configurations. Users can control which workloads have access to public and private networks, optimize traffic flow, and create multi-tiered applications with logically separated front and backend layers. The service is designed for easy setup and customization, making it suitable for various use cases, from secure information sharing within an enterprise to complex application architectures. Private Networking is offered at no additional charge, including same-region data transfer, with cross-regional data transfer coming soon for VPC.
- Dedicated CPU
Linode's Dedicated CPU instances offer powerful infrastructure solutions for CPU-intensive applications. These instances run on their own CPU cores, providing consistent and predictable performance without sharing processors with other instances. Ideal for tasks like video encoding, machine learning, and data analytics processing, Dedicated CPU instances ensure full-duty workloads can run without CPU contention. They offer competition-free resources, with vCPU threads exclusively assigned to cores and SMT threads on the hypervisor. This makes them perfect for CI/CD, build jobs, and latency-sensitive applications. Users can resize existing instances to Dedicated CPU plans at any time, allowing for flexible resource management. With a range of competitive plans, Linode's Dedicated CPU instances cater to various use cases, balancing price and performance.
- Block Storage
Linode Block Storage is a high-availability, scalable storage solution that allows users to easily add extra storage capacity to their compute instances. Utilizing NVMe technology, it offers superior performance with increased throughput and IOPS compared to traditional storage. Block Storage volumes can be resized, attached, or detached from instances without rebooting, providing flexibility and ease of use. The service features built-in data replication for enhanced reliability and can store various types of data, including website files, databases, and even bootable operating systems. Priced at $0.10/GB per month with hourly billing, Linode Block Storage provides a cost-effective solution for businesses needing additional storage resources.
- Enterprise Application Access
Enterprise Application Access (EAA) is Akamai's network security tool designed to provide simple and secure application access without the need for a VPN. This innovative solution enhances both efficiency and protection for organizations by implementing a zero-trust approach to application access. EAA offers a streamlined way for employees and authorized users to access enterprise applications securely, regardless of their location or device. By eliminating the traditional VPN infrastructure, EAA reduces complexity, improves user experience, and strengthens overall security posture. This tool is part of Akamai's comprehensive suite of security and cloud computing solutions, making it an ideal choice for businesses looking to modernize their application access strategy.
- Account Protector
Akamai Account Protector is a security solution designed to prevent account abuse throughout the entire lifecycle of an account. Utilizing machine learning and a comprehensive dataset of risk and trust indicators, it evaluates the legitimacy of user requests to protect against account takeovers, bot attacks, and other forms of account abuse.
- Request Control Cloudlet
Request Control Cloudlet is a powerful access control solution offered by Akamai Technologies. It enables users to swiftly allow or deny access to web applications directly from the Edge of the Akamai Intelligent Platform. This cloudlet provides an efficient way to manage and control access to web resources, enhancing security and performance. By leveraging Akamai's extensive network, Request Control Cloudlet offers a robust and scalable solution for businesses looking to implement granular access controls for their web applications. It integrates seamlessly with Akamai's other cloud computing, security, and content delivery offerings, providing a comprehensive approach to web application management and protection.
- Client-Side Protection & Compliance
Akamai Client-Side Protection & Compliance is a security solution designed to safeguard websites and end-users from JavaScript threats and data exfiltration. This product assists with PCI compliance while providing robust protection against client-side attacks. By focusing on the client-side security of web applications, it helps organizations maintain the integrity of their online platforms and protect sensitive user information from malicious actors. The solution is part of Akamai's comprehensive security offerings, which include App and API Security, Zero Trust Security, and Bot & Abuse Protection.
- API Acceleration
Akamai API Acceleration optimizes the performance, security, and scalability of APIs. It ensures fast and consistent API responses through route optimization, response caching, and scalable authentication. This solution is designed to handle high volumes of dynamic, non-cacheable content and asymmetric traffic flows, making it ideal for applications with highly distributed users and frequent spikes in demand.
- Adaptive Media Delivery
Akamai Adaptive Media Delivery is designed to provide high-quality, secure streaming media delivery across various network types and connection speeds. It leverages adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming to ensure a consistent viewing experience, even during spikes in demand. Built on the Akamai Connected Cloud, it offers scalability, reliability, and extensive reach, supporting multiple video and music formats.
- CloudTest
Akamai CloudTest is a robust platform designed to validate the performance of websites, mobile apps, APIs, and databases at scale. It supports testing in both pre-production and production environments, handling from hundreds to millions of virtual users. The platform provides real-time analytics to identify performance bottlenecks and optimize application infrastructure.
- Identity Cloud
Akamai Identity Cloud is a robust Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) solution designed for large consumer-facing brands. It offers secure, scalable identity management capabilities to enhance user experiences while protecting sensitive data. The platform provides seamless authentication, authorization, and profile management across various digital touchpoints, enabling businesses to build trust with their customers and streamline user interactions.
- Audience Segmentation Cloudlet
Akamai's Audience Segmentation Cloudlet is a powerful tool for defining audiences and splitting visitor traffic for A/B and multivariate testing. It leverages the performance and security of Akamai's Content Delivery Network (CDN) to enable efficient and secure testing scenarios. This solution allows businesses to segment their audience based on various criteria and conduct experiments to optimize user experiences, content delivery, and overall website performance. By integrating seamlessly with Akamai's CDN infrastructure, the Audience Segmentation Cloudlet ensures that testing activities do not compromise site speed or security, making it an ideal choice for businesses looking to enhance their digital presence through data-driven decision-making.
- Akamai Guardicore Platform for Zero Trust
The Akamai Guardicore Platform is a comprehensive security solution designed to protect against advanced cyber threats through microsegmentation and Zero Trust principles. It provides granular visibility and control over network traffic, enabling organizations to minimize attack surfaces and prevent lateral movement of threats. The platform integrates seamlessly with existing infrastructure, offering flexible deployment options and robust threat detection capabilities.
- Application Load Balancer Cloudlet
Application Load Balancer Cloudlet is a global server load balancing solution provided by Akamai Technologies as part of their Connected Cloud platform. It offers superior performance, availability, and scalability for distributing traffic across multiple servers or data centers. This cloudlet enables businesses to achieve fast and reliable load balancing on a global scale, ensuring optimal application performance and user experience. By leveraging Akamai's extensive network infrastructure, the Application Load Balancer Cloudlet helps organizations efficiently manage traffic distribution, improve application responsiveness, and maintain high availability for their online services.
- Secure Internet Access Services
Akamai Secure Internet Access services empower Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) to elevate their offerings beyond traditional speed and reliability. This solution enables service providers to differentiate themselves in the market by incorporating robust security features into their internet access services. By leveraging Akamai's expertise in cloud computing, security, and content delivery, ISPs and MNOs can enhance their value proposition to customers, offering comprehensive protection against various online threats. This approach not only improves the overall user experience but also positions service providers as leaders in secure internet connectivity, addressing the growing demand for safer online environments in an increasingly digital world.
- Direct Connect
Akamai Direct Connect is a cloud computing solution that enhances reliability and performance by providing a secure connection between global data centers and the Akamai Connected Cloud. This service eliminates the need for third-party IP transport providers, offering improved network efficiency and security. Direct Connect is designed to optimize data transfer and application performance across Akamai's extensive network infrastructure, making it an ideal choice for businesses seeking robust, high-performance cloud connectivity. By leveraging Akamai's global presence and expertise in content delivery and cloud computing, Direct Connect ensures seamless, low-latency communication between enterprise systems and Akamai's cloud services, supporting a wide range of use cases from content delivery to advanced security implementations.
- Edge Redirector Cloudlet
Edge Redirector Cloudlet is an Akamai solution that offloads high volumes of URL redirects to the Akamai Intelligent Edge platform. This product is designed to improve website performance and user experience by efficiently managing URL redirections at the edge of the network. It allows businesses to handle complex redirection scenarios without burdening origin servers, potentially reducing server load and improving response times. Edge Redirector Cloudlet is part of Akamai's Content Delivery offerings, specifically under the Edge Applications category, indicating its role in optimizing content delivery and application performance at the network edge.
- DNS Manager
Linode DNS Manager is a comprehensive DNS management interface within the Linode Cloud Manager that provides users with complete control over their DNS records. It offers simple, reliable, and highly available DNS control that is scalable to meet various needs. The service allows easy importing of zones from other providers, serves records from globally distributed name servers for high availability, and enables automated management through the Linode Cloud Manager or API.
- EdgeKV
EdgeKV is Akamai's distributed key-value store designed for JavaScript developers to create data-driven EdgeWorkers applications. It provides a robust platform for building dynamic, responsive edge applications by enabling seamless data storage and retrieval at the network edge. EdgeKV enhances the capabilities of EdgeWorkers, allowing developers to store and access data closer to end-users, resulting in improved performance and reduced latency. This solution is particularly beneficial for applications requiring real-time data processing, personalization, and dynamic content delivery. By leveraging EdgeKV, developers can create more sophisticated edge computing solutions that can handle complex data operations without relying heavily on origin servers, thus optimizing application performance and user experience
- Backups
Linode Backups is a fully managed, automated backup service for cloud instances. It offers daily, weekly, and biweekly local backups, ensuring data protection without manual intervention. The service features a configurable backup window, allowing users to choose a suitable two-hour slot for backup generation. Activation is simple, requiring just one click, with no software installation or configuration needed. Pricing is based on the chosen compute plan. Linode Backups provides peace of mind by safeguarding against accidental deletions and misconfigurations, enabling fast data restoration when needed. This service is an essential tool for businesses and individuals looking to secure their cloud-based data with minimal effort and maximum efficiency.
- Download Delivery
Download Delivery is a high-performance solution for delivering file-based content through Akamai's globally distributed content delivery network (CDN). This product is designed to efficiently handle large file downloads, ensuring fast and reliable content delivery to users worldwide. By leveraging Akamai's extensive network infrastructure, Download Delivery optimizes the transfer of files, reducing latency and improving overall user experience. This solution is particularly beneficial for businesses that need to distribute large files, software updates, or other downloadable content to a global audience.
- Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE)
Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE) is a fully-managed container orchestration platform that simplifies the deployment and management of Kubernetes clusters. It offers fast and efficient infrastructure setup, allowing users to have their workloads operational within minutes. LKE combines ease of use with simple pricing, charging only for consumed resources without additional management fees. The service provides automatic scaling, efficient resource utilization, and supports integration with popular Kubernetes tools. With a high-availability control plane option and CNCF certification, LKE ensures reliability and portability for containerized applications. It caters to developers and businesses seeking a streamlined Kubernetes experience without the complexity of manual cluster management.
- Cloud Firewall
Linode Cloud Firewall is a free network security service that allows users to create, configure, and add stateful network-based firewalls to Linode services. It provides scalable protection by filtering traffic at the network layer, enabling fine-grained control over who can access Linodes based on trusted IP addresses, ports, and protocols. Cloud Firewall operates independently of the services it's attached to, allowing a single firewall to be applied to multiple Linode resources.
- Media Services Live
Akamai Media Services Live is a robust solution designed to deliver high-quality, 24/7 live linear streaming services at scale. It enables content providers to offer reliable and seamless viewing experiences for their audiences, leveraging Akamai's extensive content delivery network and advanced streaming technologies. This service is particularly suited for broadcasters, OTT providers, and other media companies looking to stream live events or continuous programming with professional-grade quality and global reach.
- Object Storage
Linode Object Storage is a highly available, S3-compatible cloud storage solution designed for storing and managing large amounts of unstructured data. It offers scalable storage clusters from 250GB to 1PB, making it ideal for content assets, artificial intelligence, and machine learning applications. With free inbound transfer and up to 1TB outbound included, it provides cost-effective data management compared to other cloud providers. The service ensures high availability and durability by replicating objects across multiple servers. It supports static website hosting and doesn't require virtual machines for data access. Linode Object Storage is perfect for storing backup files, database dumps, logs, and massive data sets, all accessible via URL.
- Phased Release Cloudlet
Phased Release Cloudlet is an Akamai product designed to facilitate canary releases with built-in proactive failover capabilities. This solution aims to reduce risk during continuous software release activities by allowing organizations to gradually roll out new versions of their applications to a subset of users. By enabling controlled testing and monitoring of new releases, Phased Release Cloudlet helps identify and mitigate potential issues before they impact the entire user base. This approach enhances the reliability and stability of software updates while minimizing downtime and user disruption. The cloudlet integrates seamlessly with Akamai's cloud computing and content delivery infrastructure, providing a robust platform for managing the complexities of modern software deployment processes.
- Brand Protector
Akamai Brand Protector is a comprehensive security solution designed to safeguard businesses against various forms of brand abuse and targeted attacks. It employs advanced detection and mitigation techniques to protect organizations from phishing attempts, impersonations, and other malicious activities across multiple digital platforms, including websites, social media channels, and app marketplaces. By leveraging Akamai's extensive network and security expertise, Brand Protector helps companies maintain their brand integrity, protect their customers from fraud, and minimize potential financial and reputational damages associated with cyber threats.
- Cloud Wrapper
Akamai Cloud Wrapper is designed to optimize origin offload and reduce cloud egress costs. It provides a secure connection to both private and public cloud storage and compute platforms, enhancing performance and availability. By acting as a custom caching layer, it minimizes the need for direct origin server access, ensuring consistent and high-quality user experiences even during traffic spikes.