Akamai Functions
A globally distributed serverless computing platform from Akamai built on WebAssembly technology, enabling sub-millisecond cold starts. It supports global deployment via a single command and includes built-in key-value storage and sandbox security mechanisms.
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Akamai Functions is positioned as the first truly globally distributed, zero-cold-start serverless compute platform, with an average cold start time of less than 0.5 milliseconds.
Akamai Functions can complete a globally distributed deployment with a single command, requires no Terraform to be written, and incurs no additional charges.
After deploying to Akamai Functions, Spin key-value storage seamlessly switches to globally distributed key-value storage with no configuration required from the developer.
A global deployment executed via spin aka deploy takes approximately 60 seconds to complete, and after all regions return HTTP 200, the platform automatically assigns a public subdomain.
In actual testing, the X-Envoy-Upstream-Service-Time for pure business logic was 33–34 milliseconds, while a coin-flip request that went through full LLM inference took approximately 820–866 milliseconds.
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Akamai Functions is positioned as the first truly globally distributed, zero-cold-start serverless compute platform, with an average cold start time of less than 0.5 milliseconds.
50%UnverifiedAkamai Functions can complete a globally distributed deployment with a single command, requires no Terraform to be written, and incurs no additional charges.
50%UnverifiedAfter deploying to Akamai Functions, Spin key-value storage seamlessly switches to globally distributed key-value storage with no configuration required from the developer.
50%UnverifiedA global deployment executed via spin aka deploy takes approximately 60 seconds to complete, and after all regions return HTTP 200, the platform automatically assigns a public subdomain.
50%UnverifiedIn actual testing, the X-Envoy-Upstream-Service-Time for pure business logic was 33–34 milliseconds, while a coin-flip request that went through full LLM inference took approximately 820–866 milliseconds.
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