Akamai offers a hardened, globally distributed cloud built for the AI era. It brings GPU-powered compute closer to users and data — accelerating growth, sharpening competitiveness, and controlling costs.
Inference is the future of AI
Training teaches AI to think, but inference puts it to work. It turns models into real-time applications that reason, respond, and act. Inference delivers the experiences that make AI valuable.
AI apps on Akamai Inference Cloud perform closer to users, respond instantly, and scale unbound.
Without inference, AI is just potential
Why Akamai Inference Cloud?
How It Works
Build toward a unified AI cloud stack — foundation, models, data, and execution — with edge traffic management and agent lifecycle control. Specialized GPUs and Akamai’s edge network deliver low-latency inference supported by Akamai’s adaptive security and observability enable performance, protection, and efficiency at global scale.
Features
- Specialized GPUs
- Traffic management
- Serverless functions
- Adaptive AI security
- Agent and application building and management
- Distributed data
- Unified observability
- Data pipelines
- Object storage
Use cases
Run AI anywhere it creates value. Power faster responses, smarter automation, and effective, real-time experiences across every use case.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Akamai Inference Cloud is built for organizations investing in AI to gain a competitive edge, drive operational transformation, and prepare for the future. It’s designed for teams building and deploying AI-powered applications at scale who need the infrastructure to support real-time performance worldwide. We are empowering:
- MLOps: Engineers who automate the entire machine learning lifecycle to ensure models are continuously retrained, deployed, and monitored for performance in production
- AI engineers: Software engineers who build end-to-end agentic applications, often using pretrained models, and bridge the gap between data science research and production software
- Agentic system architects: Evolution of a traditional system architect who designs, builds, and manages complex, autonomous agentic systems that can independently reason, plan, act, and adapt to achieve high-level business goals
Inference happens closer to your users, not in a distant data center. Akamai’s globally distributed edge network routes traffic to the most suitable GPU region, reducing latency and providing faster, more consistent responses for AI-driven experiences.
Akamai Inference Cloud brings AI factories to the edge, decentralizing data and processing, and routing requests to the best model using Akamai’s massively distributed edge locations. By moving data and inference closer to users, it enables customer smart agents to adapt instantly to users and transaction optimization in real time.
Akamai offers network-level defense, adaptive threat protection, and API security at the edge with configurable security and access controls around your data and models.
You can deploy and monitor agentic AI applications using Akamai’s pre-built Kubernetes developer platform. MLOps engineers can take advantage of an integrated and preconfigured stack of Kubernetes software, including vLLM, KServe, NVIDIA Dynamo, NVIDIA NeMo, and NVIDIA NIMs.
The platform combines NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers, featuring NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, with Akamai’s distributed cloud computing infrastructure and global edge network, which has more than 4,400 points of presence worldwide.
Talk with our team about your use case. We’ll help you match your workloads to the right GPU and deployment configuration, then guide you through setup so you can start running inference quickly.
Book your AI consultation today
AI is moving from the lab to production, and the pressure is on to deliver faster, smarter, and more secure experiences. Whether you’re optimizing inference, scaling models, or reducing latency, we’re here to help you bring AI to life ... at the edge.
- See how to deploy and scale AI inference closer to your users.
- Learn how edge native infrastructure improves performance.
- Explore how to cut costs while maintaining enterprise-grade security.
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