アカマイ・テクノロジーズ、ファーミオン買収を発表

Akamai just made a clear move to sharpen its edge computing game by acquiring Fermyon, a company known for serverless WebAssembly and its work in the open source space. The point is simple. AI workloads are drifting closer to the edge and the old cloud pattern is starting to feel slow and expensive. Fermyon’s Wasm based FaaS slots neatly into Akamai’s global network and gives developers a way to run lighter, faster, cheaper edge native apps instead of bulky cloud native ones.

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The deal also pulls in Fermyon’s leadership and its open source projects like Spin and SpinKube, which will keep running under Akamai. This signals that the edge stack is maturing and starting to look more like a full cloud platform that can handle real workloads. The industry trend is obvious. As AI inferencing spreads out, companies want performance without runaway costs and they want tools that feel familiar. アカマイ・テクノロジーズ is betting that a programmable edge built on Wasm is the next step. The company does not expect any major financial impact in 2025.