Cloudlets are value-added applications that complement Akamai's core delivery solutions to solve specific business challenges. Cloudlets bring a site's business logic closer to the end user by placing it on the edge of the content delivery platform.

Cloudlets:

Solve specific business or operational needs that complement Akamai's core delivery products.
Bring functionality to the edge of the Akamai network, resulting in fewer requests to origin.
Are self-serviceable. You can configure each Cloudlet through user interfaces or the Cloudlets API.

Developer tools

Cloudlets API v3
Cloudlets API v2
Cloudlets Terraform

What's new

Release notes