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Akamai

Cost Optimization with Akamai

Akamai offers a suite of solutions for content delivery, cloud security, and performance optimization. Leveraging Akamai’s features and best practices can help you manage and optimize your costs effectively, ensuring efficient use of resources while maintaining high performance and security.

Content Delivery Network (CDN) Optimization:

Traffic Management

Adaptive Delivery: Use Akamai’s adaptive delivery features to optimize content delivery based on user device, network conditions, and location. This reduces unnecessary data transfer and improves user experience.


Load Balancing: Utilize intelligent load balancing to distribute traffic across multiple servers or data centers. This ensures optimal resource utilization and prevents overloading, reducing the need for costly over-provisioning.

Security & Compliance

Web Application Firewall (WAF): Implement Akamai’s WAF to protect your applications from malicious attacks. This reduces the risk of costly security breaches and downtime.


Bot Management: Use Akamai’s bot management solutions to identify and mitigate malicious bot traffic. Reducing unwanted traffic helps in lowering bandwidth costs and improving performance.

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  • Image and Video Optimization: Utilize Akamai’s media optimization tools to automatically compress and resize images and videos. This reduces the amount of data transferred and improves load times, lowering CDN costs.
  • Edge Computing: Leverage edge computing to execute logic closer to the user, reducing the load on your origin servers and improving response times. This leads to cost savings by reducing server and bandwidth usage.
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  • Cost Dashboards: Create custom dashboards to monitor key cost metrics, traffic patterns, and performance indicators. Visualizing this data helps in identifying trends and opportunities for cost optimization.
  • Alerting: Set up alerts for unusual spending patterns or traffic spikes. Immediate notifications enable quick responses to potential cost overruns.
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  • Minimize Data Transfer: Reduce data transfer costs by minimizing the amount of data sent over the network. Use efficient data serialization formats and batch operations to optimize network usage.
  • Locality of Instances: Deploy Redis instances closer to your application servers to reduce network latency and costs associated with data transfer between regions.

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Resource Management

Scalable Infrastructure: Utilize Akamai’s scalable infrastructure to handle traffic spikes without over-provisioning. Pay only for the resources you use, ensuring cost efficiency.

Service Consolidation: Consolidate multiple services onto the Akamai platform to benefit from integrated solutions and potentially lower overall costs.