Akamai API Acceleration by Performance Cloud

As digital experiences rely more heavily on APIs, maintaining high performance and reliability is crucial. Akamai API Acceleration offers a solution designed to support fast, secure, and scalable API delivery. By optimizing traffic routing and response caching, it enhances user experiences, even during traffic spikes, while reducing strain on origin infrastructures. With its robust edge caching and built-in security measures, this solution helps you maintain high availability and consistent performance across all user interactions.

Optimized API Performance and Reliability

Akamai API Acceleration offloads requests from origin infrastructures, ensuring consistent high performance even during periods of high traffic. It efficiently handles small transactional data like XML, JSON, and other programmatic content, delivering fast, reliable experiences across apps and websites. Powered by Akamai Connected Cloud, the solution minimizes network congestion and guarantees low latency, with responses cached at the edge for quick delivery. Additionally, Text-based API responses are compressed for added efficiency. Integrated security features, including offloading authentication and encrypting responses via TLS, safeguard your data, while Origin IP ACL strengthens access control, ensuring both scalability and reliability.

Key capabilities:

Reliability and Scale:
- Akamai Connected Cloud - It has the most pervasive, highly distributed content delivery network (CDN)
- 100% Uptime SLA - Maximum API availability during high traffic.
- Origin Failover - Seamless origin switch to maintain uptime.
Performance:
- Routing Optimization - Smart route selection for faster performance.
- Advanced Cache Control - Offloads traffic and speeds up response times.
- Advanced Protocol Support - Supports HTTP2, HTTP/3, and IPv6.
- Purge and Fast Metadata Activation - Quickly updates content and activates configuration changes.
- Device Characterization - Tailors the user experience based on real-time data from device capabilities.
- LMA/GZIP Compression - Speeds up content transfer, especially for text formats like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Security:
- Standard and Enhanced TLS - Provides HTTPS delivery with added security measures.
- Token Authentication - Prevents unauthorized access at the edge.
- Content Targeting - Restricts access to content based on geographic location
- Origin IP ACLs - Adds an extra layer of security by hiding the origin infrastructure from public networks.
Customer UI and reporting
- Property Manager - Self-service configuration tool.
- Traffic Reports - Provides performance insights.

Benefits to your business

Boost API Performance: Enhance user experiences by ensuring fast, responsive APIs with optimized routing, caching, and scalable authentication.
Scale Rapidly for Spikes: Maintain consistent performance and reliability during high or unpredictable traffic periods, offloading stress from origin infrastructures.
Maintain High Reliability: Ensure the availability of mission-critical API traffic with a 100% uptime SLA and seamless origin failover to guarantee continuous operation.
Control Infrastructure Costs: Control infrastructure expenses by reducing the load on your origin and minimizing cloud resource consumption.
Secure Your APIs: Safeguard your APIs with integrated protection features, such as origin IP ACLs and scalable authentication mechanisms, all through a streamlined onboarding process.

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