Deploying and building applications quickly, at scale, and cost-effectively are challenges organizations of all sizes face today. Akamai Cloud can provide your organization with the required computing resources and deployment strategies needed for your applications.

Benefits

Some of the benefits provided by Akamai Cloud include its globally distributed footprint, cost-effective network transfer, and scalability.

Globally distributed. Akamai Cloud runs on one of the world’s most distributed platforms, spanning thousands of locations across hundreds of cities and countries. This architecture places compute within milliseconds of end users worldwide.
Cost effective. Akamai Cloud is designed for cost efficiency with transparent pricing and low egress fees. This helps teams control costs as they scale AI, media, and performance-sensitive workloads globally.
Massively scale complex workloads. Automatically scale your resources (including the number of VMs or GPUs) to match application demand in real time. Whether you're running high-memory databases, GPU-accelerated AI inference, or traffic-spiking web applications, Akamai Cloud scales with you.
Enterprise-grade, developer-friendly. Development teams can quickly onboard using Cloud Manager, Terraform, or our API, CLI, and SDKs without the sprawling complexity often found with hyperscalers. The focused catalog, open-source-native tooling (like Kubernetes and standard Linux), and straightforward API mean developers can ship applications faster, while your organization gets enterprise-level compliance, security, and SLAs.

Services

Compute

These services provide a simple-to-use, open cloud where developers can innovate, build, release, and scale faster with virtual machines and tools for every workload:

If you want to...	Use
Maximize performance with CPU instances that run on their own CPU cores in your cloud computing framework.	Dedicated CPU compute instances
Run economical CPU instances for general workloads and substantial amounts of free bundled transfer.	Shared CPU compute instances
Scale your applications on Kubernetes clusters with our fully managed container orchestration engine.	Kubernetes Engine
Create functions at the edge on the largest distributed serverless network.	EdgeWorkers
Assign GPUs for parallel processing workloads like machine learning and video processing.	GPU Compute Instances

Storage

Cloud storage is frequently overlooked as a commodity service. Underperforming block storage is a bottleneck that works against initiatives to improve application response times. These services give you access to dependable storage and management:

If you want to...	Use
Add persistent storage devices to store your data, such as website files, databases, and backups.	Block storage volumes
Store files in flat data structures, also referred to as buckets, alongside their own rich metadata.	Object Storage
Safeguard your CPU instance data with automatic backups.	Backups

Networking

Your network is at the heart of your organization and is critical to your business and how it functions in today’s global digital ecosystem. These services secure your network, balance traffic, and control your infrastructure:

If you want to...	Use
Secure your network and create firewall rules that safeguard selected ports and protocols from unwanted network traffic.	Cloud Firewall
Defend and control your domain service infrastructure.	DDoS Protection and DNS Manager
Scale your application or website to thousands of users.	NodeBalancer

Containers

Based on your application resource requirements, your containerized applications should be able to scale in both directions, up and down. For this, you need a fast and simple Kubernetes cluster deployment to efficiently manage and schedule containers. Use our Kubernetes Engine to create, manage, and deploy your application infrastructure.

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