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Akamai Edge Workers

Akamai Edge Workers

Description

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

Features

Edge Feature overview of Akamai Edge Workers
Functions / Serverless
Functions supported languagesJavaScript, possibly Python (1 example with Python code in their repo)
Worker.js Environment
Docker supportNo
Docker private registry
Kubernetes support
Managed Kubernetes
Availability regionsOver 4100 POPs worldwide
Default Memory (MB)
Maximum Memory (MB)
Execution Time (ms)
Maximum Execution Time (ms)
Request Payload (MB)
Response Payload (MB)
Unsupported Paid Feature Supported Unknown

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