New regions in Amsterdam, Jakarta, Los Angeles, Miami, Milan, Osaka and São Paulo advance Akamai’s modern decentralized cloud vision.
Akamai Technologies has formally announced the launch of seven new core compute regions across Europe, Asia, North America and Latin America. The new sites in Amsterdam, Jakarta, Los Angeles, Miami, Milan, Osaka and São Paulo mark the third phase in Akamai’s ongoing rollout of new core compute regions. This follows its acquisition of Linode last year and underscores the company’s effort to reshape the cloud landscape.
By adding São Paulo and Miami to its network, Akamai simplifies doing business in Latin America. These new regions make Akamai a compelling rival in a market traditionally controlled by larger hyperscale providers. Akamai’s new presence in São Paulo enables customers to run workloads in one of the southern hemisphere’s busiest cities and nations. This eliminates the economic and performance obstacles that typically require workloads to be routed across continents. São Paulo and Miami exemplify Akamai’s mission to create core compute regions in challenging markets globally. These are connected to the same underlying backbone that powers its current edge network, a system spread over 4,100 edge Points of Presence (PoPs) in 131 countries.
Akamai is revolutionizing how organizations think about cloud architecture. The company prioritizes a more distributed, decentralized, low-latency and globally scalable design. Its cloud computing services suit high-performance workloads that need to operate closer to end-users.
These are commonly seen in industries like streaming media, gaming and ecommerce. All of these services fall under the umbrella of Akamai Connected Cloud, a massively distributed edge and cloud platform for cloud computing, cybersecurity and content delivery that brings applications and experiences closer while keeping cyberthreats at bay.
Adam Karon, Chief Operating Officer and General Manager of the Cloud Technology Group at Akamai, commented: “The need for companies to provide a better user experience increasingly exposes the limits of the legacy centralized cloud model. We’re solving this challenge for customers by flipping the script. With Akamai Connected Cloud, we’re taking an outside-in, distributed-first approach built on a commitment to cloud-native technologies and the same network many of the world’s largest companies have relied on for more than two decades. It’s an approach focused on a future where scale becomes as much about the size of the network as it does the size of the data center.”
The latest set of strategic new core compute regions will gradually go live and become accessible to customers during September and October. This extension enhances Akamai’s cloud computing network to crucial, data-intensive junctions, allowing for improved connectivity and user experiences. São Paulo, having one of the largest and most challenging digital populations to reach in Latin America, marks Akamai’s inaugural core compute region in the area, with more connectivity options to be rolled out later this year.
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