Overview

Enhance user experience with a fast and cost-effective CDN that accelerates asset delivery, caches content across multiple locations, and ensures nearby servers handle user requests. This CDN offers high availability to meet growing demands, employing modern protocols and a robust global infrastructure for optimal performance and security. Leveraging the Akamai Intelligent Platform’s extensive reach, content is delivered quickly and securely worldwide. Ducksify’s partnership with Akamai streamlines deployment, offering an efficient and consolidated solution for edge delivery.

Terminology

• CDN (Content Delivery Network)
  A geographically distributed network of servers designed to deliver content efficiently to users based on their location.
• Edge Server
  A server positioned close to end users that caches and delivers content, significantly reducing latency.
• Origin Server
  The primary server where the original version of your content is stored and managed.
• Cache
  Content temporarily stored on edge servers to accelerate delivery and reduce the load on the origin server.
• Caching
  The process of storing content closer to the user to enhance performance and speed up access times.
• Hit / Miss
  A Cache Hit occurs when content is found in the CDN cache, allowing for faster delivery. A Cache Miss occurs when content is not found in the CDN cache and must be retrieved from the origin server.
• TTL (Time To Live)
  The duration for which cached content remains valid before it needs to be refreshed or revalidated.
• PoP (Point of Presence)
  A physical data center location where CDN servers are deployed to improve content distribution.
• Purge
  The act of removing content from the CDN cache, typically to force an update to the cached copy.
• Latency
  The delay between a user’s content request and the actual delivery of that content.
• Throughput
  The volume of data transmitted over a network within a specified time frame, often used as a measure of network performance.
• Request Routing
  The process of directing a user’s request to the nearest or most optimal edge server to ensure efficient content delivery.

Features

This CDN solution ensures 100% content delivery, boosts download completion rates and supports modern protocols like HTTP/2 and IPv6 for enhanced performance. QUIC support overcomes delivery challenges and enriches user experiences. The Akamai Intelligent Platform delivers rapid assets from a vast global server network. At the same time, Ducksify integration offers a seamless, efficient edge delivery service.

• Get Started Quickly
  Deploy CDN in front of your S3 compatible Object Storage buckets from the same interface you are already using.
• Volume Based Pricing
  Zero fixed fees, no commitment - just a simple, three-tier pricing model. Flat rates across regions worldwide.
• Leveraging Akamai Network
  Highly distributed CDN with more than 4,170 locations in 134 countries around the world
• World-class Delivery Availability
  Align your brand with service predictability amidst increasing consumer expectations. Our CDN will serve your content 100% of the time.
• Improve Download Completion Rates
  Through better, reliable, and secure performance.
• Modern Protocol Support
  Ability to leverage HTTP/2 to provide better efficiency, performance and security, as well as IPv6 for traffic routing across the internet.
• QUIC Support
  Address the fundamental challenges of delivery over the internet to create a more engaging experience for all end users.
• Leveraging the Akamai Intelligent Platform
  Instantly serve your assets from the most pervasive, highly-distributed CDN with approximately 300,000 servers in 134 countries and nearly 1,400 networks around the world.
• Powered by Ducksify
  We have partnered with the CDN experts from Ducksify, member of the Akamai NetAlliance Partner network, to provide you with a simple, integrated service to the Akamai Edge Delivery Network.

Availability

Limitations

The current service iteration has the following limitations:

• The source content must be hosted on the Exoscale SOS service.
• Using a vanity domain for the CDN endpoint is not supported.
• The CDN cache cannot be explicitly purged - other strategies must be used to manage the cache lifecycle.
• Buckets with dots in their names cannot be served through the CDN.