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Akamai
ByAkamaiAkamai

Akamai

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What is Akamai?

If you've ever shopped online, downloaded music, watched a web video or connected to work remotely, you've probably used Akamai's cloud platform. Akamai helps businesses connect the hyperconnected, empowering them to transform and reinvent their business online. We remove the complexities of technology, so you can focus on driving your business faster forward.

Akamai is a tool in the CDN category of a tech stack.

Key Features

Protect your apps and APIs, stop credential abuse, and move to a Zero Trust security model with the world’s most powerful edge security platformFocus on increasing revenue with powerful data and automation built to enhance customer experience on web and mobile applicationsDeliver and monetize high-quality and secure online streaming experiencesQuickly integrate Akamai into existing developer workflows, streamlining cloud deployment and delivery

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Akamai Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Akamai?

CloudFlare

CloudFlare

Cloudflare speeds up and protects millions of websites, APIs, SaaS services, and other properties connected to the Internet.

Amazon CloudFront

Amazon CloudFront

Amazon CloudFront can be used to deliver your entire website, including dynamic, static, streaming, and interactive content using a global network of edge locations. Requests for your content are automatically routed to the nearest edge location, so content is delivered with the best possible performance.

MaxCDN

MaxCDN

The MaxCDN Content Delivery Network efficiently delivers your site’s static file through hundreds of servers instead of slogging through a single host. This "smart route" technology distributes your content to your visitors via the city closest to them.

Incapsula

Incapsula

Through an application-aware, global content delivery network (CDN), Incapsula provides any website and web application with best-of-breed security, DDoS protection, load balancing and failover solutions.

Fastly

Fastly

Fastly's real-time content delivery network gives you total control over your content, unprecedented access to performance analytics, and the ability to instantly update content in 150 milliseconds.

KeyCDN

KeyCDN

KeyCDN offers super fast and secure content delivery for minimal loading time. In addition to the CDN, it also offers advanced image processing and many other features such as live logs and Let's Encrypt SSL.

Akamai Integrations

Catchpoint Synthetics, Cloudinary, Cloudinary, Cloudability, Authress and 4 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with Akamai. Here's a list of all 9 tools that integrate with Akamai.

Catchpoint Synthetics
Catchpoint Synthetics
Cloudinary
Cloudinary
Cloudinary
Cloudinary
Cloudability
Cloudability
Authress
Authress
Coralogix
Coralogix
Cloudability
Cloudability
Sumo Logic
Sumo Logic
SpinupWP
SpinupWP

Akamai Discussions

Discover why developers choose Akamai. Read real-world technical decisions and stack choices from the StackShare community.

Poogles
Poogles

Feb 14, 2015

Needs adviceonAkamaiAkamai

Akamai sits at the front of the site, all assets and pages are cached for a minimum of 60 seconds. Requests to the edge peak at over 100k/s. Akamai

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