Charting a Course for the Modern Cloud
Earlier this year, we launched Akamai Connected Cloud, which was built on a bold vision to design a cloud for the needs of the next decade, not the last. Today, we mark a milestone in that journey with the opening of new sites around the world, new services for commercial customers, and improvements that strengthen the performance of our cloud computing services.
We’re taking a fundamentally new approach to the cloud that challenges industry norms by opening the door to a modern, distributed design. One that meets the needs of modern applications that increasingly require higher performance, lower latency, and true global scalability that current cloud architectures were not built to provide.
New sites
The new sites — strategically located in Paris; Washington, D.C.; and Chicago; with Seattle and Chennai (India) opening later this quarter — are the first step in putting compute, storage, database, and other services on top of the same underlying backbone that powers our edge network today. The sites are built on a new architecture design and hardware configuration to enable scalable high-performance cloud resources.
In addition to doubling our global cloud computing capacity, the new sites support our own aggressive effort to migrate existing services from competitor infrastructure to our own cloud.
New premium instances
We also announced new premium instances that deliver consistent performance, predictable resource and budget allocation, and simpler SKU management for larger commercial workloads. The new instance types guarantee assignment to the best-performing processor and hardware combination available.
Doubled object storage capacity
We doubled the capacity of our object storage product to one petabyte and one billion objects per bucket. This upgrade allows businesses to access higher data volumes to build scalable, performant, and low-latency cloud-native applications and analytics solutions.
Introducing Akamai Global Load Balancer
Finally, we announced plans to launch Akamai Global Load Balancer later this quarter, the first of several planned integrated services following our acquisition of Linode. Akamai Global Load Balancer is a critical piece of our connected cloud vision. These new capabilities ensure no single point of failure by routing traffic requests to the optimal data center to minimize latency.
Find out more
You can learn more about today’s announcement in our newsroom. More information about Akamai Connected Cloud and Akamai’s cloud computing services is available on the Akamai website.
