In this segment, Ari Weil, VP of Product Marketing at Akamai, explores the company’s journey into distributed cloud services beginning with customers seeking to deploy applications on Akamai’s globally distributed CDN. Their initial collaboration with Apple on iCloud Private Relay leveraged containerized solutions running on Akamai’s edge network.

Since then, Akamai has significantly expanded its infrastructure, now offering 28 core data centers, 10 distributed data centers, and 4,200 points of presence worldwide. They’ve introduced a managed container service, enabling customers to offload containerized workloads and run fully managed applications across Akamai’s network.

Customers have the flexibility to choose between self-managed and fully managed solutions, benefiting from Akamai’s expertise in scaling operations, failure management, and network orchestration. Looking ahead, Akamai envisions a future where cloud services are fully orchestrated, eliminating the need for customers to manage the underlying infrastructure.

Guest: Ari Weil (LinkedIn)
Companies: Akamai 
Show: To The Point

This summary was written by Emily Nicholls.