Akamai provides a distributed cloud computing platform for building and delivering low-latency, edge-native applications. Its cloud services are designed to help businesses reduce infrastructure costs, improve application performance, scale globally, and maintain flexibility across technologies. The platform offers compute options including shared, dedicated, and high-memory CPU plans, as well as GPU-accelerated instances for workloads such as AI, machine learning, scientific computing, and video processing.

Customers can deploy cloud-native applications using Kubernetes and the App Platform, and choose managed Kubernetes and database services for MySQL and PostgreSQL. Storage options include block storage, object storage, and backups, while networking features include cloud firewalls, DNS management, load balancing, and private networking. Akamai also provides managed hosting and solutions for AI inferencing, ecommerce, gaming, media, and SaaS businesses.

Resources include developer documentation, guides, reference architectures, a community, marketplace applications, and a cloud cost calculator. The company highlights predictable pricing, cloud portability, global scale, and access to expert support for deployments, migrations, optimization, and architecture planning