AKAMAI WEB PERFORMANCE SOLUTIONS: PRODUCT BRIEF
Akamai API Gateway
Scale access and simplify policy controls for APIs
The Challenge of Scaling and Managing APIs
APIs empower you to enable new business models, monetize data, and increase collaboration with partners, thus putting them at the center
of every digital experience. Beyond enabling new business opportunities, APIs can also increase your threat surface, and a lack of appropriate
API authorization, authentication, and quota management policies can expose you to downtime and misuse.
Introducing Akamai API Gateway
The Akamai API Gateway governs your API traffic by authenticating, authorizing, and controlling requests from API consumers. It leverages
Akamai’s cloud delivery platform that delivers over 445 billion API hits a day and maximizes your scalability and reliability. This allows you to
spend more time focusing on API strategy, design, and implementation, instead of building and maintaining management infrastructure.
Key Capabilities
Pushing API logic to the edge yields a number of advantages:
Scalable Access Control
• Validate JSON Web Tokens (JWT) and API keys at the edge to maximize scalability and reduce infrastructure buildout
• Reject unauthorized requests before they reach your origin
• Simplify API key lifecycle management
Quota Enforcement
• Set and enforce the number of API requests allowed per hour, per API consumer
• Enforce business SLAs and enable tiered access for APIs
Developer Tools
• Use common API definition language documents to quickly deploy APIs on Akamai (Swagger and RAML)
• Automate management of API Gateway via rich set of administrative APIs
• Define caching and delivery rules for each API (independently from your domain’s overall configuration on Akamai)
Seamless integration with Akamai Intelligent Platform™
• Protect APIs from malicious traffic with Kona Site Defender and Bot Manager
• Equip APIs with routing and protocol optimizations
• Improve reliability with traffic management solutions
Why Akamai
By delivering 95 exabytes of data over billions of devices a year, and delivering more than 445 billion API interactions a day, Akamai provides the
world’s largest and most trusted cloud delivery platform, making it easier to provide the best and most secure digital experiences on any device,
anytime, anywhere. With the broadest array of best-in-class cloud delivery products and services, including superior web and mobile performance,
cloud security, enterprise access, and video delivery solutions — all underpinned by exceptional customer service and 24/7 monitoring — you can
count on our people and technology to support you every step of the way.
AKAMAI WEB PERFORMANCE SOLUTIONS: PRODUCT BRIEF
Akamai API Gateway
API Policy & Adaptive
Desktop Protection Routing Acceleration
Browser
Bot Global User
Manager Quota
Mobile App
iOS or Android Mobile
Performance
Site Key Application Load
Shield Authentication Balancer
Mobile Browser
AKAMAI
TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT Your API Backend
Client Token Resource
Reputation Authorization Optimization
API Service
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CLOUD SECURITY API GATEWAY ION
Smart Device
SSL SureRoute HTTP/2 Platform HTTP {OPEN} APIs
Offload Protections Response
Caching
AKAMAI CLOUD DELIVERY PLATFORM
As the world’s largest and most trusted cloud delivery platform, Akamai makes it easier for its customers to provide the best and most secure digital experiences on any
device, anytime, anywhere. Akamai’s massively distributed platform is unparalleled in scale, giving customers superior performance and threat protection. Akamai’s portfolio
of web and mobile performance, cloud security, enterprise access, and video delivery solutions are supported by exceptional customer service and 24/7/365 monitoring.
To learn why the top financial institutions, online retail leaders, media and entertainment providers, and government organizations trust Akamai, please visit www.akamai.com,
blogs.akamai.com, or @Akamai on Twitter. Published 07/18
