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Akamai named a Major Player in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Public Cloud IaaS 2025

IDC MarketScape named Akamai a Major Player, noting “Akamai’s competitive advantage lies in the company’s robust CDN and security services seamlessly integrated into its cloud offerings.”

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Distributed Cloud: Taking AI to the Edge research study

A 2024 Forrester Consulting study, commissioned by Akamai, explores distributed cloud interest among cloud strategy decision-makers.

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Learn how we cut our public cloud spend by 40% in one year

Read the Project Cirrus brief for insights on business objectives, cloud risk management, and our five-step migration process.

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AI inference efficiency: Spend less and do more

As demonstrated using the Stable Diffusion model on Akamai Cloud, AI inference costs can be reduced by up to 86%. Discover strategies to optimize performance and lower expenses.

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The cloud of the future, today

Essential strategies for optimizing your cloud infrastructure and enhancing application performance.

Lower your cloud bills

Budgeting for cloud infrastructure should be easy. Enjoy flat, predictable pricing with low egress fees and a free egress allowance.

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Deploy low-latency apps

Enhance the performance of your VMs, containers, storage, and databases with support from our Qualified Compute Partners or our popular marketplace apps.

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Scale across the globe

Control where data is managed and scale to meet demand in key global customer markets.

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Get real cloud portability

Choose the right technologies to power different workloads. Eliminate the need to use proprietary services.

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See if you qualify for up to US$5,000 in cloud credits

Available to new or existing business customers. Need help with large deployments, migrations, app optimization, architecture assessments, security and reliability audits, and more.

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Dedicated CPU

Dedicated CPU instances run on their own CPU cores in the cloud computing infrastructure.

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App Platform

Deploy powerful cloud-native applications on Kubernetes in minutes with automated infrastructure.

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GPU

Parallel process workloads including machine learning, scientific computing, and video processing.

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Linode Kubernetes Engine

Managed K8s container orchestration engine for containerized workloads.

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Managed Databases

Fully managed database service for MySQL and PostgreSQL. Deploy a managed database cluster in production.

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Object Storage

Store your data for high availability, durability, or distribution.

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Cloud Computing Foundations Certification

Develop a foundational understanding of cloud computing and explore Akamai’s cloud computing ecosystem.

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Pricing

CPU, transfer, storage, and RAM bundled into one flat price.

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Support experience

Get expert advice and assistance whenever you need it from our award-winning support team of highly trained service professionals.

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Developer portal

Comprehensive guides, documentation, and endpoints.

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