Akamai, the 800-pound gorilla in the CDN jungle, has joined the Edge Compute movement by launching their Edge Worker solution in 2021. Leveraging Akamai’s gigantic network creates an attractive edge solution for those in need of large scale edge compute. Apps can be found on the Akamai Marketplace in case you don’t want to develop your own applications from scratch
Functions / Serverless | |
Functions supported languages | JavaScript, possibly Python (1 example with Python code in their repo) |
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Docker support | No |
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Availability regions | Over 4100 POPs worldwide |
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Unsupported Paid Feature Supported Unknown |