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S-Maxage is now in GA for Dynamic Site Accelerator and Ion! We’ve listened to our users and have created an easier way to manage your cache settings.  What is S-Maxage? | With the trend shifting to multi-CDN solutions, teams need easier ways to manage their settings across the various platforms they use.  S-Maxage is a cache-control directive outlined by the...

Akamai Cloud Access Manager (CAM) is a new feature that will now be included as part of our delivery service. The CAM feature will help anyone who uses cloud origins more easily manage access keys in a simple and secure method.   CAM captures AWS and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) authentication keys and access IDs in a secure service for use...

Many companies today rely on Akamai’s Media Services Live and Adaptive Media Delivery for a full end-to-end livestreaming workflow - from ingesting multiple bitrates with high stability to delivering these streams to a global audience with as little latency as possible. For companies managing multiple livestreams often ranging from 24/7 streams to multiple event streams occurring at the same time,...

It’s now easier than ever before to onboard new hostnames and update your existing configurations to ensure your Ion and Dynamic Site Accelerator (DSA) properties are configured for optimal performance. As part of Akamai’s Platform Update this October, we’ve updated our default configuration settings for Ion and DSA to include Akamai-recommended rules to help you efficiently set up new hostnames...

EdgeWorkers is an Akamai edge computing technology that enables developers to customize web traffic by  running JavaScript at the Edge instead of using browser clients or origin servers. See this overview  for more information.  In this blog, we are going to focus on how developers can leverage continuous deployment automation tools like GitHub actions to simplify deploying EdgeWorkers code within...

Many companies today are looking for easier ways to automate vendor services. This blog will help you understand the Akamai Developer toolbox and how you can utilize it. I’ll give you a better understanding of what the Akamai Developer toolbox offers and how you can best utilize this in your workflows and overall digital ecosystem.  What is the goal of...

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Interconnect provides a direct connection, also known as a Private Network Interconnect (PNI), between Akamai and Google to improve the performance, control, and cost associated with the exchange of origin traffic. Connecting to Google through the PNI can reduce cloud provider egress costs and boost performance. Akamai is committed to creating the best experience possible for...

Many websites provide a search function to help users find nearby locations such as retail stores. Typically, a store locator service is implemented on-premise or at the cloud origin, searching a database to find physical locations near the user. You can improve the performance of this search by executing it in a serverless function at the Edge with EdgeWorkers. Finding...

This blog post will go over how you can migrate from advanced metadata to custom behaviors so you can directly manage and edit your configurations without going through Akamai professional services. Akamai Edge servers are smart reverse proxies located at the edge of the Internet that you can leverage to deliver fast and high-quality content to your end-users. Two of...

DataStream provides real-time access to application activity data, including aggregated metrics on complete request-response cycles as well as origin response times. It helps simplify web application monitoring, and includes applications deployed to cloud hosting or that leverage third-party services.  DataStream works in two modes: A push model that pushes logs to Splunk, Datadog, S3, SumoLogic, or custom endpoints to the...