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Increase cost savings, performance, and speed to market

Put applications and workloads close to your end users, no matter where they are in the world, with the world’s most distributed cloud platform.

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Give your customers the experience they expect

Build and deploy applications and workloads closer to your customers for fast, near real-time, interactive experiences. 

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Remove complexity for more innovation

Simplify the developer experience and foster innovation with our open and flexible architecture.

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Allocate your budget more efficiently

Optimize cloud costs with flat-rate, transparent pricing and minimal egress fees.

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Cloud computing services

Compute

Compute

Build, release, and scale faster with IaaS, virtual machines, and tools for every workload.

Dedicated CPU

Dedicated CPU instances run on their own CPU cores in the cloud computing infrastructure. No sharing the processor with other instances.

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Shared CPU

Affordable Shared CPU plans are ideal for general workloads and include generous amounts of free bundled transfer.

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High Memory

High Memory instances offer a cost-effective way to run memory-intensive applications on dedicated CPUs. Perfect for when you need more RAM without increasing storage or vCPUs.

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Premium Instances

Premium instances provide a minimum hardware model for consistent performance on dedicated resources.

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GPU

Use on-demand GPUs for parallel processing workloads such as machine learning, scientific computing, and video processing.

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Linode Kubernetes Engine

Deploy Kubernetes clusters with our fully managed container orchestration engine.

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EdgeWorkers

Create functions at the edge on the largest distributed serverless network.

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Containers

Containers

Efficiently orchestrate containerized applications.

Linode Kubernetes Engine

Deploy Kubernetes clusters with our fully managed container orchestration engine.

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Storage

Storage

Easily access dependable storage and management.

Block Storage

Easily add highly available and scalable storage capacity to your cloud computing instances.

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Object Storage

Use Object Storage to store your data across a cluster of servers for high availability and durability.

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Backups

Your data is safe and secure with a simple, scalable backup service. The subscription service automatically performs daily, weekly, and biweekly local backups.

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Databases

Databases

Quickly deploy simple, reliable, and scalable managed databases.

Managed Databases

Fully-managed database service for MySQL and PostgreSQL. Deploy a managed database cluster in production today.

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Networking

Networking

Secure your network, balance traffic, control your infrastructure.

Cloud Firewall

Secure your network with a cloud computing firewall. Create firewall rules that only allow network traffic on selected ports and protocols.

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DDoS Protection

Our global network is protected by advanced DDoS mitigation in all of our data centers, helping to fend off attacks on your infrastructure. 

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DNS Manager

DNS Manager is a comprehensive interface within our Cloud Manager that gives you complete oversight of DNS records.

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NodeBalancers

Easily scale your app or website to thousands of users with NodeBalancers. Automatically handle increases in load and ensure your site is highly available.

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VLAN

Create a private Layer 2 network for secure communication between your computing instances.

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Developer Tools

Developer Tools

Take advantage of advanced tools, resources, and documentation for optimized application development.

Cloud Manager

Cloud Manager is a user- and mobile-friendly interface to deploy and manage virtual machines, configure networking, and control user accounts.

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API

Easily configure, manage, and deploy user management, billing, support tickets, and more with programmatic access to our cloud computing products and services.

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CLI

Deploy and manage Linux servers without leaving the command line.

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Linode Terraform Provider

Use the verified Terraform Provider to declaratively manage cloud infrastructure and version control workloads of all shapes and sizes.

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Linode Ansible Collection

Support multicloud infrastructure by provisioning and managing configurations using one open source, infrastructure as code (IaC) tool with the Ansible Collection.

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Images

Easily create, store, and deploy one image across multiple machines with custom images.

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Integrations

Utilize tools to manage and optimize your cloud infrastructure that easily integrate.

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StackScripts

Use StackScripts to automatically configure new instances using simple scripts. Create your own or browse the community StackScript library.

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Monitoring

Easily analyze performance graphs and keep track of your transfer usage right from Cloud Manager. Create custom alerts for when you near thresholds you set.

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Users & Permissions

Take advantage of collaboration and security to accelerate your business.

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Explore specific use cases

Media

Build and deploy applications closer to your viewers.

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Gaming

Improve the gamer experience with low latency and high availability.

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SaaS

Build your SaaS applications faster and deploy them anywhere.

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Learn about our partners

Akamai’s technology partners provide interoperable solutions that deliver the benefits of proximity, speed, and cost optimization.

Partner Story

CEO: We lowered customer latency by 100 ms

Partnering with Akamai for cloud, HarperDB reduced customer latency by 100 ms and computing costs by as much as 50%.

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The Power of Portability: 5 Business Benefits of Going Cloud Native Now

Why let a cloud vendor dictate your strategy? Go cloud native and give your business more tools for growth.

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Hear from our customers

Customer Story

Digital Extremes: When milliseconds matter

An extra 150 milliseconds of latency might not be the end of the world to some companies, but if Digital Extremes asks their customers what a 150-millisecond ping feels like, “they may scream in frustration.”

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Customer story

Zolvit cuts cloud costs by 50%

A large compliance company saw cloud costs drop 50% while app delivery speed increased.

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Additional resources

Ebook

5 ways to maximize your return on cloud investments

Determining the right cloud for your workloads is essential to achieving agility, scalability, and budget goals.

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Checklist

Test your workloads on different clouds

IDC finds placing workloads in the right clouds drives ROI. Use their worksheet to assess your workload strategy.

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Research Report

Does the forecast predict a cloud-filled future?

New data from global IT leaders about the cloud-native future. Read the Forrester study commissioned by Akamai.

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