Why IBM CDN is essential for your business
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. Protect your web applications from various attacks by adding a CDN between your users and your infrastructure.
Akamai CDN features
Use case support
Reliably supports all major content delivery use cases.
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
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
Seamlessly integrates into the IBM Cloud environment, with multi-tenant capabilities for easy cloud-customer management. Also, API-driven delivery and customer-level billing/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 fast and secure delivery to users around the world.
Akamai coverage
IBM Cloud has partnered with Akamai to offer the most comprehensive CDN features, while ensuring affordability. This partnership features edge servers in 36 countries, to bring the content closest to where you need it most — your users.
IBM Cloud CDN with Akamai has no extra storage fees. Pay only for the bandwidth you use.