# Akamai Technologies

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

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

## Overview

- **Tagline:** The world's most distributed edge platform with over 4,000 points of presence, providing unmatched proximity to end-users for security and delivery.
Source: Brand's website (https://akamai.com) · 2026-10-04

- **Description:** Akamai Technologies is a global cloud computing, security, and content delivery network (CDN) provider. It operates a massive distributed server network that accelerates web performance and provides cybersecurity services to large-scale enterprises and government agencies. Following its acquisition of Linode, it has expanded into infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), positioning itself as a distributed alternative to centralized public clouds.
Source: Brand's website (https://akamai.com) · 2026-10-04

## Offerings

- **Core capabilities:**
  - Content Delivery Network (CDN)
  - Web Application Firewall (WAF)
  - Edge Computing
  - DDoS Protection
  - Akamai Connected Cloud (IaaS)
Source: Brand's website (https://akamai.com) · 2026-10-04

- **Pricing:** Enterprise/Custom (typically usage-based with tiered contracts)
Source: Brand's website (https://akamai.com) · 2026-10-04

## Audience

- **Target industry:** Global Fortune 500 companies, Government, Media & Entertainment, Financial Services, Large-scale E-commerce
Source: Brand's website (https://akamai.com) · 2026-10-04

## Landscape

- **Competitors:**
  - Cloudflare
  - Fastly
  - Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  - Zscaler
Source: Brand's website (https://akamai.com) · 2026-10-04

Page last updated 2026-10-17.