Akamai Block Storage
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Est 1998|Valuation $16.6B|Raised $361.8M
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day
Published May 16, 2026
| Starting Price | Published per-GB pricing available from the vendor (varies by region) | Published per-GB pricing available from the vendor | Published per-GB pricing available from the vendor |
| Typical Use Case | Users of Akamai Cloud compute needing persistent NVMe-backed volumes; cost-sensitive workloads | DigitalOcean users seeking straightforward volumes with strong documentation and community support | Users seeking simple block pricing and broad provider footprint |
| Key Strength | Integration with Akamai Cloud ecosystem; NVMe-backed volumes; Terraform support and default encryption options | Established developer community and documentation; simple pricing | Simple block pricing and broad geographic footprint |
| Key Weakness | Smaller ecosystem than hyperscalers; single-node attachment limitation; account/governance friction reported | Less breadth of managed services versus hyperscalers; some provider limits exist | Operational experiences vary; community has reported outages for some storage offerings |
Akamai vs DigitalOcean: List pricing for block volumes is comparable. Differentiators include Akamai’s edge and security footprint, egress-pricing differences, enterprise procurement and compliance posture, and user-experience preferences.
Akamai vs Vultr: List pricing is comparable. Buyers often decide based on region availability, perceived reliability and support quality, and existing provider relationships.
Akamai vs hyperscalers (AWS/GCP/Azure): Hyperscalers generally offer deeper managed ecosystems (databases, analytics, IAM, integrated backup tools). Akamai can be more appropriate for teams that prefer simpler developer workflows and predictable bandwidth costs for specific traffic patterns.