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:

This release introduces the Akamai Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector for Akamai Cloud Pulse, provided under the Apache License 2.0.

This is a security-focused release that includes a new Debian image to patch several vulnerabilities in runc, the container runtime used by Kubernetes.

Kubernetes v1.34 is now available on LKE. Additionally, this release include updates to existing Kubernetes versions, CoreDNS, and NVIDIA drivers.

Identity and Access in Cloud Manager is now available is in Limited Availability. Identity and Access in Cloud Manager is used to manage user identities within an account and manage operations that those identities may perform. Identity and Access uses the role-based access control (RBAC) model to authorize operations on entities.

This includes updated GPU drivers, upgrades to Kubernetes versions, CoreDNS, the Linode Cloud Controller Manager (CCM), and the Linode Block Storage CSI driver.