Akamai Connected Cloud: The World’s Most Distributed Cloud Platform
Today, we’re announcing Akamai Connected Cloud, the culmination of our strategy to build the cloud platform for today and for the future. Akamai Connected Cloud is a massively distributed edge and cloud platform for cloud computing, security, and content delivery. I’d like to share more about what we’re doing and what it means for you.
A blueprint based on customer need
When we spoke with CTOs, CIOs, and developers at our largest customers, they described a growing need for a distributed cloud platform that provides the cloud services they need — exactly where and when they need them — and also addresses common cloud challenges such as cost, price, performance, and scale. Those conversations informed our 2022 acquisition of Linode, whose cloud computing capabilities now run on Akamai Connected Cloud.
Akamai Connected Cloud is a fundamentally different approach, a platform designed to give you everything you need, everywhere you need it, all at the same time.
Growing our global network
Akamai Connected Cloud delivers enterprise-grade, cloud-based solutions at scale around the globe. Akamai’s cloud computing services place compute, storage, database, and other services closer to your customers, key industries, and IT centers.
This means developers can focus on coding while Akamai handles the infrastructure, placing your workloads according to your needs and delivering apps where and when your users want them. Our aggressive egress pricing is designed to bring CDN-like economics to cloud data transfer, offering significantly discounted rates compared with other cloud providers, helping you maximize your cloud ROI.
Build, deploy, and secure performant workloads
Akamai Connected Cloud is a continuum of compute from core to edge, paired with our security, CDN, and 24/7/365 support. This will enable you to more efficiently build, deploy, and secure performant workloads that require single-digit millisecond latency and global reach.
And with Linode’s developer-friendly DNA, you’ll find it simpler to deploy distributed applications. Developers will be able to use these capabilities for applications, workloads, and use cases that haven’t been imagined yet.
A future-focused platform
As our co-founder and CEO, Tom Leighton, says in our announcement, Akamai is building the cloud the next decade needs. Akamai Connected Cloud is a fundamentally different approach — a platform designed to give you everything you need, everywhere you need it, all at the same time. We are building this platform for, and because of, you. I look forward to seeing how you use it to help power and protect your business into the future.
Find out more
Read about the debut of Akamai Connected Cloud, and learn more about Akamai’s cloud computing services running on Akamai Connected Cloud.
