Why your business needs IBM Cloud Content Delivery Network
Your users are expecting faster load times for your web applications. Improve your users’ experience and reduce bounced sessions by delivering content at record speed and caching content closer to your users on the Akamai network. Automatically scale your service on the Akamai network with pay-as-you-go pricing. Serve non-cacheable dynamic content with optimized performance by dynamic content acceleration. Protect your web applications from various attacks by adding a content delivery network (CDN) between your users and your infrastructure.
What is a CDN?
Visit the IBM Cloud Learn Hub for a complete overview of CDNs
Akamai CDN features
Use case support
Reliably supports all major content delivery use cases and content types.
Seamless API integration
Masterfully integrates through a full set of APIs.
Simpler cloud experience
Clarifies and streamlines the experience for cloud customers.
Benefits of using Akamai CDN
Market-leading CDN scale, global reach and performance
Akamai CDN offers leading performance and offload for workloads, and scenario-based performance optimization. Move content near users and leverage the Akamai Intelligent (Global Edge) Platform.
Fully integrated and easy to use
Akamai CDN seamlessly integrates into the IBM Cloud™ environment, with multitenant capabilities for easy cloud-client management. It drives API-driven delivery and client-level billing and reporting.
Cost efficient
This market-leading CDN offering saves you from expensive network build-outs. Plus, the Akamai CDN supports wholesale pricing that enables competitive delivery.
How customers use it
Accelerate delivery of static files using a CDN
This tutorial walks you through how to host and serve website assets (such as images, videos and documents) and user-generated content in cloud object storage, and how to use a CDN like Akamai’s to ensure faster, more secure delivery to users around the world.
Accelerate a dynamic website using Dynamic Content Acceleration
Web applications are composed of static content like text, images, cascading style sheets and JavaScript files. This tutorial shows you how to host and serve static assets (images, videos and documents) of a website from IBM Cloud Object Storage with IBM® Content Delivery Network (CDN).
Akamai coverage
IBM Cloud has partnered with Akamai to offer the most comprehensive CDN features, while ensuring affordability. This partnership features edge servers in 133 countries to bring the content closest to where you need it most — your users.
Akamai CDN in action
Competitively priced
IBM Cloud CDN with Akamai has no extra storage fees. Pay only for the bandwidth you use.