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Introducing the Akamai App Platform

Ari Weil is Vice President of Cloud Computing and Delivery Product Marketing at Akamai.

Nov 12, 2024

Ari Weil

Ari Weil is Vice President of Cloud Computing and Delivery Product Marketing at Akamai.

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Ari Weil

Ari Weil is a product strategy and go-to-market executive with experience across various management and operational disciplines. He brings more than 20 years of cross-functional enterprise management expertise, across every aspect of the product and marketing lifecycle, to his role. His key areas of focus include data security, compliance, risk management, cloud adoption, digital transformation, and modern application architectures.

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Over the past decade, developers have been forced to choose between two evils: either accept Big Cloud’s complexity, costs, and lock-in, or struggle and lose precious time building everything from scratch. Like code itself, it was a binary decision. Until now.

We’re breaking that binary choice with a third path: the Akamai App Platform, a ready-to-run solution that balances the simplicity of the cloud and the control of open source to make it easy to deploy, manage, and scale highly distributed applications in a few clicks and cut deployment time from months to less than an hour. Read more in our press release.

The Akamai App Platform is built on top of the cloud native Kubernetes technology Otomi, which we acquired from Red Kubes earlier this year. The application connects pre-configured upstream open source projects from CI/CD to observability, to security, enabling engineering teams to build, deploy, secure, and observe their applications at scale. We incorporated many of the technologies built by the CNCF community, including Kubernetes applications that we integrate to provide platform capabilities, and a catalog of golden path templates to provide a clear pathway for developers to build and deploy their applications.

Join the Akamai App Platform Beta

Sign in, or sign up now to get started with the Akamai App Platform. 

  • App Platform is a free service, publicly available to users via the Cloud Manager or API
  • Users can select App Platform during the creation process of an LKE cluster deployment
  • This service is available in all regions where LKE is supported
  • App Platform documentation includes installation guides and other information
  • Please read our Early Adopter SLA, and if you experience any issues, please contact our Support Team.

Come See Us at KubeCon NA 2024

Stop by booth B2 to meet our team, learn more about the Akamai App Platform, and experience a few demos around our vision for the distributed cloud. See more ways to connect at KubeCon.

Ari Weil is Vice President of Cloud Computing and Delivery Product Marketing at Akamai.

Nov 12, 2024

Ari Weil

Ari Weil is Vice President of Cloud Computing and Delivery Product Marketing at Akamai.

Written by

Ari Weil

Ari Weil is a product strategy and go-to-market executive with experience across various management and operational disciplines. He brings more than 20 years of cross-functional enterprise management expertise, across every aspect of the product and marketing lifecycle, to his role. His key areas of focus include data security, compliance, risk management, cloud adoption, digital transformation, and modern application architectures.

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