Cloudlets

The following cloudlets are available from Akamai:

• API Prioritization: Lets you specify which calls for applications resources like JSON or XML have priority and are sent to the origin during high-demand situations.
• App Load Balancer: Offers intelligent, scalable traffic management across physical, virtual, and cloud-hosted origins without having to send load feedback. It can automatically detect load conditions and route traffic to the optimal data source while maintaining custom routing policies and consistent visitor session behavior.
• Audience Segmentation: Provides hassle-free traffic segmentation and stickiness without degrading performance, which is often beneficial for A/B and multivariate testing. This cloudlet creates stable test populations at the ​Akamai​ edge by assigning a cookie value to the user.
• Edge Redirector: Helps IT and marketing users manage large numbers of redirects more efficiently. By executing redirects at the ​Akamai​ edge, you can reduce round trips to the origin and offload hits from your origin infrastructure.
• Forward Rewrite: Helps you create, based on in-bound request information, human-readable and search engine optimization–friendly (SEO-friendly) URLs for dynamically generated pages.
• Input Validation: Helps strengthen your web forms against abuse or monopolization from brute force and behavioral attackers. It does this by validating form fields and values in incoming requests. In addition, this cloudlet provides the ability to limit the number of valid form submissions and invalid attempts per user. Once the limit is reached, additional requests are denied (403) or redirected (302) to a custom "penalty box."
• Phased Release: Helps facilitate the rollout of code changes to production. With this cloudlet, you can move a percentage of visitors to the new experience or deployment while also retaining the flexibility to roll back immediately should you encounter challenges.
• Request Control: Lets you provide conditional access to your website or application by defining and managing allow lists and deny lists based on the IP and geography associated with incoming requests.
• Virtual Waiting Room: Helps maintain business continuity for your dynamic applications in high-demand situations by placing visitors in a virtual waiting room when your origin reaches its configured capacity limit. It acts as a front-end “shock absorber” when peak traffic volumes require the origin for transaction processing, such as shopping cart checkouts, donation pages, service/application subscriptions, and form registrations. 
• Visitor Prioritization: Uses probability- and percentage-based prioritization for entry into the waiting room and origin. The Virtual Waiting Room and Visitor Prioritization comparison provides the differences between these two cloudlets so that you can choose the waiting room cloudlet that best meets your business requirements.