Akamai CDN
Caching and delivery from Akamai's edge network, close to your users rather than two hops from an origin.
Sites and apps where distance and page weight are what people experience as slowness.
We build and run on thisDelivery at the edge, defence in front of it, compute behind.
We build and run on Akamai — content delivery and security at the edge, and Akamai Cloud Computing for the workloads sitting behind it. Committed spend can be placed through our partnership.
Not a boxed licence — we design and operate workloads here, and can place your committed spend through us.
What we work with
The products, and who each one suits.
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App & API Protector
WAF, API protection and rate controls applied at the edge, before traffic reaches your origin.
Public apps and APIs that get scraped, credential-stuffed and probed.
Prolexic
DDoS mitigation for whole network ranges, not only web traffic.
Organisations whose exposure includes DNS, mail and other non-HTTP services.
Bot Manager
Classification and handling of automated traffic — including the bots you want to keep.
Commerce, ticketing, and anywhere inventory is worth scraping.
Akamai Cloud Computing
Virtual machines, managed Kubernetes and object storage, with pricing that does not hide a cliff in egress.
Predictable workloads where the hyperscaler bill has become the main design constraint.
Edge DNS
Authoritative DNS on the same anycast network as the delivery platform.
Anyone who has had a DNS outage and would rather not repeat it.
What buying through us changes
A partnership is only worth what it changes.
Better than list
On committed Akamai spend — delivery traffic, security modules or cloud computing. Where you commit, we place it through our partnership rather than leaving you at list.
Named contacts
An escalation path into Akamai rather than a queue. During an attack, or a cache behaviour nobody can reproduce, a named engineer is worth more than a ticket number.
Startup credits
Where Akamai is running a credits or startup programme, we sponsor the application and prepare the case. The award is Akamai's to make.
How we help
The work around the product.
- Delivery configuration — cache keys, TTLs, origin shielding and purge strategy: the settings that decide whether a CDN helps or just adds a hop.
- Security policy — WAF rules tuned against your own traffic rather than shipped defaults, with a period in alert-only before anything blocks.
- Bot and DDoS readiness — what gets challenged, what gets dropped, who gets called, written into a runbook that names them.
- Migration onto Akamai Cloud Computing — sizing, network layout, Kubernetes clusters, and an honest comparison against staying where you are.
- Origin work — a CDN hides an origin problem for a while. We fix the origin as well.
- Egress and cost modelling — what the same workload costs here against a hyperscaler, with every assumption written down.
Where this is not the answer
Akamai is a strong edge and a straightforward cloud. It is not a hyperscaler catalogue — no managed warehouse, no broad managed-AI stack, none of the long tail of niche services — and if your architecture depends on those, we will say so before you plan a move. Tuning a WAF also takes real traffic and time; anyone offering you a safe blocking policy on day one is guessing.
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Next step
Buying Akamai? Talk to us first.
Tell us what you are trying to do and we will come back with the sizing, the licensing and the price — from a partner, within two working days.