Maddie Presland

More users than ever subscribe to on-demand media streaming and engage with live streaming video over the internet, rather than broadcast television. This shift has led the need for highly-specialized technology to support performance-critical media transcoding and OTT streaming functionalities.  We recently launched Accelerated Compute, our new compute solution that provides access to application-specific integrated […]

Check Object Storage account usage and limits with quotas, now available in open beta.

As part of our mission to build the leading cloud for developers to create and scale applications, we’re continuing to add free intuitive features and products to secure your cloud resources. Our new Local Disk Encryption feature is the latest compute feature that we are gradually rolling out to all of our core compute regions. […]

Decreasing round trip time is crucial for latency-sensitive applications so end users can experience as close to real-time interaction as possible. In some use cases, that performance is not just a perk; it’s expected for real-time gaming, media live streaming, and mission-critical software applications. Akamai’s Distributed Compute Regions provide access to highly performant, cost-effective cloud […]

As your application scales, the manual toil of setting up and configuring a compute instance should evolve from a task to an automated pipeline. Images are a cornerstone to that pipeline, making it easy to capture and deploy the latest version of your golden image across multiple instances. We’ve made some recent improvements to our […]

Since we initially launched Distributed Compute Regions in 2024, some of our largest customers have leveraged these smaller cloud computing sites to bring applications as close to end users as possible, especially during surges in app usage. Now, distributed regions are even better with Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) capabilities, allowing customers to place their performance-sensitive […]

Media streaming is here to stay. The $100 billion segment of the media industry has rapidly flipped its stance in the media landscape. Just over a decade ago, online streaming was a niche way to binge TV shows on your computer. Now, it’s the primary way that households consume both entertainment and essential information. A […]

We recently made some design changes to our UI to improve the user experience. Lead Senior Software Engineer Jaalah Ramos expands on the “why” in this Q&A.

Our latest core compute region expansion in Tokyo is now available for all customers.

Deploy cloud GPU instances optimized for media workloads and lightweight AI applications, powered by NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation GPU cards.

Our latest core compute region expansion is live in Frankfurt, DE.

10 Distributed Compute Regions across the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania are now available.