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Akamai

Last updated May 16, 2025, generated by Sumble

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What is Akamai?

Akamai is a content delivery network (CDN) and cloud service provider. It distributes content globally across a network of servers, improving website performance and security by caching content closer to users and mitigating DDoS attacks.

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What other technologies are related to Akamai?

Akamai Competitor Technologies

Cloudflare offers similar CDN, security, and edge computing services as Akamai, making them a direct competitor.

mentioned alongside Akamai in 11% (1.3k) of relevant job posts

Fastly is a CDN and edge computing provider, directly competing with Akamai's content delivery and related services.

mentioned alongside Akamai in 20% (433) of relevant job posts

EdgeCast (now part of Verizon Media) is a CDN provider that competes with Akamai in the content delivery market.

mentioned alongside Akamai in 87% (54) of relevant job posts

Imperva provides CDN, WAF, and DDoS protection, competing with Akamai in the security and content delivery space.

mentioned alongside Akamai in 13% (330) of relevant job posts

Limelight Networks is a CDN provider and competes with Akamai in the CDN market.

mentioned alongside Akamai in 53% (66) of relevant job posts

Content Delivery Networks are a direct competitor to Akamai's core CDN services.

mentioned alongside Akamai in 4% (531) of relevant job posts

Amazon CloudFront is a CDN service and a direct competitor to Akamai.

mentioned alongside Akamai in 3% (760) of relevant job posts

F5 offers load balancing, security, and application delivery services, competing with Akamai in some areas.

mentioned alongside Akamai in 2% (660) of relevant job posts

Akamai Complementary Technologies

DDoS control solutions are often used in conjunction with CDNs like Akamai to mitigate attacks, making them complementary.

mentioned alongside Akamai in 100% (65) of relevant job posts

HAR file analysis

HAR file analysis tools are used to debug and optimize web performance. They are helpful to improve the performance of Akamai's CDN deployments.

mentioned alongside Akamai in 86% (56) of relevant job posts

Network IDS/IPS

Network Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems can complement Akamai's security offerings by providing broader network-level protection.

mentioned alongside Akamai in 38% (64) of relevant job posts

Which job functions mention Akamai?

Job function

Jobs mentioning Akamai

Orgs mentioning Akamai

Engineer

0% (4.6k) job posts

187 organizations

Software Engineer

0% (2.8k) job posts

360 organizations

Security Engineer

0% (822) job posts

194 organizations

DevOps Engineer

0% (515) job posts

208 organizations

Site Reliability Engineer

1% (379) job posts

119 organizations

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Which organizations are mentioning Akamai?

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