This release includes updates to Kubernetes versions, as well as updates to prepare for the switch to Konnectivity.

The Partner Referrals Beta is now available to help you find trusted solutions built on the Akamai Cloud platform.

NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000™ Blackwell Server Edition GPU plans are now offered with limited availability on Akamai Cloud. These enterprise-grade GPUs are optimized for AI inference and high-performance workloads and can be provisioned as RTX PRO GPU instances in supported Akamai Cloud regions.

Akamai Cloud Pulse metrics are now available for the NodeBalancers service.

We're excited to announce that ​Akamai​ Cloud Managed Databases now support Dual-Stack VPCs.

A new Akamai Object Storage E3 endpoint is now generally available in Frankfurt, Germany (FRA). This endpoint offers S3-compatible object storage with:

Akamai Cloud Pulse metrics and audit logs are now in limited availability for Object Storage E2 and E3 endpoint types in all core regions except Frankfurt and Mumbai. Support for these regions is planned for a later date.

Akamai Cloud Pulse audit logs are now in limited availability for the following services:

Akamai Cloud Pulse metrics are now in limited availability for the Databases service.

Akamai is transitioning to a generational model for compute plans—a structured way of naming and organizing plans that reflects the underlying hardware generation powering each plan. As part of this change, existing plans have been rebranded, and new G8 Dedicated plans have been introduced: