This represents a new step forward in Akamai’s AI strategy, providing reliable global infrastructure and services essential for delivering, running, and protecting AI applications and agents, closer to users and data. Akamai Inference and Akamai Agent Sandbox are offered as managed services on this infrastructure. Akamai Cloud, the foundation for these services, has already secured multi-year contracts totaling over $14 billion. This demonstrates Akamai’s rapidly growing presence as a trusted foundation for building, deploying, and operating AI workloads at scale, leveraging both CPUs and GPUs and providing cloud storage, networking capabilities, and edge capabilities through an interconnected global network infrastructure.
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For businesses to deploy AI in a production environment, simply acquiring models is not enough. They need infrastructure to deliver the models, access to their own data, request routing and governance, and mechanisms to strictly restrict where agents can access their own code as they begin to write and execute it. Many teams acquire these elements individually from multiple providers and protect their connection points themselves. In contrast, Akamai Cloud provides an AI environment connected to a computing infrastructure that spans from high-density GPU and CPU clusters in core regions to more than 4,350 edge locations. Furthermore, it is protected by Akamai’s suite of security products that protect many of the world’s leading online businesses.
Source: PRTimes


