What Is Edgekey?
edgekey.net is a domain that is owned and used by Akamai that is primarily used for website acceleration through the Akamai CDN. Content Delivery Network (CDN) (About DefBoxes) Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) put website content on servers that are spread throughout the world.

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Correspondingly, what does Akamai do exactly?

Akamai is an organization that works towards making Internet fast, reliable and secure. It is essentially a CDN (Content Delivery Provider) provider that has multiple other internet solutions and is also, focussing largely towards internet security.

Also Know, does YouTube use Akamai? Google Relies On Akamai To Stream YouTube Live; 700,000 Concurrent Viewers. But instead of working with them, or building their own streaming media CDN, they chose to work with Akamai.

Furthermore, what services do Akamai?

  • SECURITY. Security Solutions.
  • WEB PERFORMANCE. Web Performance Solutions.
  • MEDIA DELIVERY. Media Delivery Solutions.
  • NETWORK OPERATOR. Network Operator Solutions. Enable new consumer and business services, optimize network traffic, and control costs.
  • SERVICES. Services.
  • DEVELOPERS. Akamai for DevOps.

How much does Akamai cost?

Pricing

Pricing & contract duration CloudFront Akamai
Requests costs $0.0075 - $0.022 per 10k requests Unknown
Ingress costs $0.02 - $0.16 per GB (free is origin is AWS) Unknown
NA/EU traffic (low volume) $0.085 per GB Unknown
APAC traffic (low volume) $0.14 per GB (India: $0.17) Unknown
Related Question Answers

Does Apple use Akamai?

Apple continues to use Akamai as their primary content delivery network for a wide range of applications including software downloads from Apple's Website, QuickTime movie trailers, and the iTunes Store.

Does Facebook use Akamai?

To provide good quality of service (e.g., low access delay) to their clients, FB relies on Akamai which provides a worldwide content distribution network with a large number of edge servers that are much closer to FB subscribers. According to Alexa Ranking1, FB is the 2nd most popular website in the world.
Marcus Vance

Marcus Vance

Cybersecurity & Digital Privacy Researcher

Marcus Vance is a cybersecurity auditor and technology writer dedicated to educating the public about online safety, data privacy regulations, enterprise security, and emerging cyber threats.