Akamai provides cloud computing services through Akamai Connected Cloud, a globally distributed platform designed to help businesses build and deliver low-latency, edge-native applications. Its offerings span compute, storage, networking, databases, and managed services, supporting workloads from standard cloud applications to AI, media, gaming, and ecommerce. Compute options include shared, dedicated, and high-memory plans, alongside GPU-accelerated instances for machine learning, scientific computing, and video processing. Customers can deploy Kubernetes applications using App Platform or Linode Kubernetes Engine, and use managed MySQL and PostgreSQL databases, object and block storage, backups, firewalls, DNS, and networking tools.

The company emphasizes predictable costs, cloud portability, global reach, and support for deploying applications closer to users. Pricing bundles CPU, data transfer, storage, and RAM into flat-rate plans, with a cloud calculator to estimate costs. Akamai also provides documentation, developer resources, training, marketplace applications, and expert assistance for deployments, migrations, optimization, and architecture reviews. Its solutions address AI inferencing, managed hosting, SaaS, and other cloud workloads, with resources to help organizations improve performance and manage infrastructure expenses.