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Headshot of Austin Gil.

How One Customer Cut Costs by Migrating from EFS to Object Storage

May 28, 2024
by Austin Gil
Transitioning to Linode Object Storage enabled an electronics company to reduce storage costs by over 15 times and egress costs by 90%, while maintaining robust global firmware distribution. This cost-effective solution ensured efficient and reliable OTA updates for millions of smart TVs worldwide.
Compute
Metadata GA
Justin Cobbett

Customize Deployments with Akamai’s Metadata Service

Jan 2, 2024
by Justin Cobbett
Our cloud-init powered metadata service is out of beta and available in more data centers.
Compute
Introducing Warm Migrations on Akamai featured image.
Justin Cobbett

Introducing Warm Migrations on Akamai

Dec 13, 2023
by Justin Cobbett
Our new unified migrations significantly improve cold migration reliability and introduce warm migrations for quickly resizing VMs.
Compute
Deploy MainConcept Transcoders & More with Marketplace from Akamai Connected Cloud.
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New in Marketplace: MainConcept Transcoder & Live Streaming Software Apps

Dec 12, 2023
by Travis Baka
Easily deploy compute instances for transcoding live and media streaming, or easily start streaming with MainConcept Live Encoder.
Compute
Docs Roundup.
Andy Stevens

Docs Roundup: Kubernetes Deployment Methods, Using Object Storage for Backups, and More

Nov 16, 2023
by Andy Stevens
Discover new how-tos, guides, and resources recently added to our growing documentation library.
Compute
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Headshot of Hillary Wilmoth.

Metadata Service Now Available in Open Beta

Aug 28, 2023
by Hillary Wilmoth
We’re adding a metadata service powered by cloud-init to make configuring compute instances faster and easier than ever.
Compute
Information on AMD Zenbleed
Jim Ackley

Information on AMD Zenbleed

Jul 26, 2023
by Jim Ackley
We successfully implemented recommended mitigations from AMD and have confirmed that our cloud computing systems are no longer vulnerable to exploitation. 
Compute
Docs Roundup.
Andy Stevens

Docs Roundup: Serverless Development, Nomad, Symlinks, Autoscaling, and More

May 17, 2023
by Andy Stevens
Discover new how-tos, guides, and resources recently added to our growing documentation library.
Compute
Docs Roundup.
Andy Stevens

Docs Roundup: Linux Basics, LAMP Stack, Python, SQL Triggers, and More

Mar 20, 2023
by Andy Stevens
Discover new how-tos, guides, and resources recently added to our growing documentation library.
Compute
Multicloud Calls for Edge Services - Techstrong Research Blog Post Header
Mike Maney

Multicloud Calls for Edge Services

Mar 14, 2023
by Mike Maney
We’re seeing an evolution in how organizations select their cloud service providers as a multicloud future becomes more inevitable.
Compute
Featured image for behind the scenes - incremental infrastructure improvements.
Justin Cobbett

Behind the Scenes: Incremental Infrastructure Improvements

Mar 8, 2023
by Justin Cobbett
Building for the future with infrastructure improvements, including more powerful CPUs, NVMe local storage, and firmware updates.
Compute