Akamai Akamai Description One of the older, and most well-known CDN providers is Akamai Technologies. Founded in 1998, the company has served notable customers such as Limelight Networks since 2006 over an alleged patent infringement – a case that came to an end in August 2015, with Limelight being held liable for the infringement. Through the Google Cloud Platform CDN Interconnect program, Akamai has established a peering arrangement with Google’s Cloud Platform. Joined by Highwinds, CloudFlare, Fastly, Level3 and EdgeCast, Akamai has established private interconnects with Google edge locations, to the benefit of both parties customers. Compared to data traffic routing over the public Internet, traffic via the interconnects suffers less latency, and the connection is more reliable. Google Cloud platform who use GCE as their origin receive a discount to their egress origin traffic routed via Akamai. AKAMAI Resellers Akamai has an extensive reseller program and works with a large amount of partners to resell its services. One of those parties is Warpcache. Interested in learning more about the company, Akamai services and Akamai pricing? Contact Warpcache here. Akamai Feature Overview Fully supported Partially supported Additional costs Not supported Unknown Feature Support PoPs ~2200 Purge All Instant Purge Control Panel Origin Push Origin Pull Origin Shield GZIP Compression Custom Rules HTTP/2 Protocol SPDY Protocol Raw Access Logs Real Time Statistics Online Signup API Purge, Statistics, Configuration Management Custom CNAMEs Shared SSL Certificates Custom SSL Certificates Wildcard SSL Certificates Support Phone and Email support, Community Forum Video On Demand (VoD) RTMP Streaming Multiple CDNs CDN Balancing Tech Storage Akamai Price Overview Akamai does not share pricing information on their website. Customers receive custom contracts tailored to their needs. Pricing Information Global Flat Fee N/A NA/EU Traffic (Low Volume) N/A NA/EU Traffic (High Volume) N/A APAC Traffic N/A LATAM Traffic N/A Extra Costs N/A