Akamai Cloud Computing

Akamai Cloud Computing, formerly known as Linode until its acquisition by Akamai Technologies in 2022 for nine hundred million dollars, is a cloud infrastructure provider originally founded by Christopher Aker in 2003, providing virtual private servers, managed Kubernetes, object storage, block storage, and content delivery network services across eleven global data centers, targeting individual developers, startups, and small businesses with transparent, predictable pricing, adopted by over eight hundred thousand customers worldwide for hosting web applications, development environments, and cloud infrastructure. The virtual machine instances called Linodes provide shared and dedicated CPU configurations with up to one hundred ninety-two vCPUs and two terabytes of memory, provisioned in under a minute, supporting all major Linux distributions including Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Alpine, Fedora, and Rocky Linux, with features including IPv6 support, VLANs for private networking, cloud firewalls, DDoS protection, node balancers for traffic distribution, and stack scripts for automated instance configuration through user-defined bash scripts. The Kubernetes engine provides fully managed Kubernetes clusters with automatic control plane management, node auto-scaling, integrated container registry, and the Terraform infrastructure as code integration, enabling teams to deploy and manage containerized applications without maintaining the underlying Kubernetes infrastructure. The object storage provides S3-compatible buckets with a built-in content delivery network, cross-region replication, and lifecycle policies. The block storage provides SSD-backed volumes. The cloud manager provides a web-based control panel. The Linode API v4 for programmatic management. The marketplace one-click apps for deploying popular applications. Designed for developers and startups.