# Akamai Edgeworkers

> Publicly sourced profile assembled by Optimly, in the Optimly AI Brand Index. Last refreshed 2026-10-04.

- **Business Profile:** https://optimly.ai/brand/akamai-edgeworkers
- **Dataset:** https://optimly.ai/brand/akamai-edgeworkers.json
- **Markdown:** https://optimly.ai/brand/akamai-edgeworkers/llms.txt
- **Official website:** https://akamai.com
- **Slug:** akamai-edgeworkers
- **Categories:** cloud-infrastructure, developer-tools

## Overview

- **Tagline:** Deployment on the world's largest and most widely distributed edge network, providing superior proximity to more global users than any other provider.
Source: Brand's website (https://akamai.com) · 2026-10-04

- **Description:** Akamai EdgeWorkers is an enterprise-grade serverless computing platform that allows developers to deploy and execute code across Akamai's massive distributed global network. It enables the creation of custom logic at the edge to improve performance and reduce origin server load by handling requests geographically closer to the end-user.
Source: Brand's website (https://akamai.com) · 2026-10-04

## Offerings

- **Core capabilities:**
  - EdgeWorkers (serverless compute)
  - EdgeKV (distributed key-value store)
Source: Brand's website (https://akamai.com) · 2026-10-04

- **Pricing:** Usage-based (based on execution time and number of invocations, typically tiered for enterprise)
Source: Brand's website (https://akamai.com) · 2026-10-04

## Audience

- **Target industry:** Global enterprises, E-commerce, Media & Streaming, Financial Services
Source: Brand's website (https://akamai.com) · 2026-10-04

## Landscape

- **Competitors:**
  - Cloudflare Workers
  - AWS CloudFront Functions / Lambda@Edge
  - Fastly Compute@Edge
  - Vercel Edge Functions
Source: Brand's website (https://akamai.com) · 2026-10-04

Page last updated 2026-10-17.