- Offload API requests from origin infrastructures, balancing and routing for fast responses
- Control infrastructure costs with intelligent caching logic for REST and GraphQL
- 100% availability SLA: Achieve maximum API availability through even the highest traffic spikes
- Secure APIs by encrypting responses and moving authentication away from origin infrastructure
- Give development teams serverless capabilities like authentication and API orchestration
- See real-time insights into key API performance indicators, dimensions, and trends
Take control of your APIs
Deliver consistent, secure API experiences with route optimization, response caching, and scalable authentication. API Acceleration enhances performance during peak events, reduces origin load, and maintains predictable cloud infrastructure costs with a 100% uptime SLA. With serverless capabilities and IP-based access control, it streamlines development and protects your origin infrastructure.
Accelerate API performance at scale
How API Acceleration works
Features
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
API Acceleration works with XML, JSON, and other small transactional and programmatic traffic types.
API Acceleration offers many ways for developers to improve API functions, including:
- Scale on demand: Effortlessly scale your endpoints for peaks using preferred capacity on the edge
- High reliability: Drive down API response errors for high CPU traffic by utilizing specialized hardware on the edge
- API response caching: Offload your origin through advanced caching logic for REST and GraphQL APIs
- Authenticate: Authorize requests at the edge using JWT validation
- CI/CD integrations: Seamlessly merge Akamai development with extant DevOps workflows with APIs for everything, as well as Akamai CLI
- Serverless computing: Preconfigured and open computation directly at the edge for rapid delivery
- Early-stage testing: Shift testing to the left so developers can proof their code early on
- Fast purge and metadata activation: For rapid content and configuration changes
API Acceleration is beneficial for applications with:
- Highly distributed users, such as a public API
- Dynamic, non-cacheable content that has a high volume of requests
- Asymmetric traffic flow, such as telemetry or beacons that often have more ingress than egress
- Bidirectional communication between the app and origin, such as chat, gaming, or social media
- B2B data feed, in some instances server to server, where demand originates from a concentrated location
- Flash crowds that cause rapid spikes in requests, such as gate drop events, betting applications, and online auctions
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