Akamai Backups

Name: Akamai Backups
Brand: Akamai Technologies
Rating: 4.4 (679 reviews)

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Est 1998|Valuation $16.6B|Raised $361.8M

LinkedIn 592K|Website|Web traffic 2.2M|FTEs 11,000|HQ Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

MarketsBackup and Data Protection Cloud Infrastructure Providers (IaaS/PaaS)

01Competitive Landscape

Below is a pragmatic comparison for the built-in VM backup add-on category.

Narrative analysis

Where Akamai Backups is a practical choice - Organizations standardized on Akamai Cloud/Linode that require a simple add-on for basic automated backups without deploying agents. - Situations where short-term, on-platform restore points are part of a broader backup strategy that includes offsite replication. Where alternatives may be preferable - Environments that require long retention, immutable backups, cross-region copies, or centralized policy management will typically find hyperscaler-native backups or third-party platforms provide broader capabilities. - Some vendors document different backup cadences and transparent pricing; hyperscalers provide richer ecosystem integration and compliance tooling. Competitive commentary should be validated against each vendor’s current documentation and pricing pages.

	Akamai Backups (Akamai Cloud / Linode)	DigitalOcean Backups	Vultr Automatic Backups
Starting Price	Published per-instance add-on pricing available from the vendor	Published weekly and daily pricing options (percentage-based of instance cost)	Published percentage-based add-on pricing (varies by instance and region)
Suitable For	Basic backups integrated with Akamai Cloud instances; short retention rollback	Teams needing different frequency options and an integrated snapshot model within the DO ecosystem	Users on Vultr seeking basic automated recovery points
Key Strength	Documented rotation slots and UI/API/CLI control; published pricing information available	Documented backup cadence options and transparent pricing information	Simple activation and competitive pricing in some regions
Key Weakness	Limited automated retention window; same-datacenter storage; limitations with encrypted filesystems; volumes excluded	Cost scales with droplet price; not a full disaster-recovery solution out of the box	Portability and feature limitations reported in some regions

01Competitive Landscape

Below is a pragmatic comparison for the built-in VM backup add-on category.

Narrative analysis

Where Akamai Backups is a practical choice

Organizations standardized on Akamai Cloud/Linode that require a simple add-on for basic automated backups without deploying agents.
Situations where short-term, on-platform restore points are part of a broader backup strategy that includes offsite replication.

Where alternatives may be preferable

Environments that require long retention, immutable backups, cross-region copies, or centralized policy management will typically find hyperscaler-native backups or third-party platforms provide broader capabilities.
Some vendors document different backup cadences and transparent pricing; hyperscalers provide richer ecosystem integration and compliance tooling.

Competitive commentary should be validated against each vendor’s current documentation and pricing pages.

	Akamai Backups (Akamai Cloud / Linode)	DigitalOcean Backups	Vultr Automatic Backups
Starting Price	Published per-instance add-on pricing available from the vendor	Published weekly and daily pricing options (percentage-based of instance cost)	Published percentage-based add-on pricing (varies by instance and region)
Suitable For	Basic backups integrated with Akamai Cloud instances; short retention rollback	Teams needing different frequency options and an integrated snapshot model within the DO ecosystem	Users on Vultr seeking basic automated recovery points
Key Strength	Documented rotation slots and UI/API/CLI control; published pricing information available	Documented backup cadence options and transparent pricing information	Simple activation and competitive pricing in some regions
Key Weakness	Limited automated retention window; same-datacenter storage; limitations with encrypted filesystems; volumes excluded	Cost scales with droplet price; not a full disaster-recovery solution out of the box	Portability and feature limitations reported in some regions