Case Study
OKAST Scaled FAST Streaming with Akamai
OKAST, a French digital media company specializing in streaming platforms and FAST (Free Ad-Supported Streaming TV) channels, migrated from AWS to Akamai Cloud to improve scalability while controlling infrastructure costs. As demand for always-on streaming services grew, fluctuating cloud expenses threatened profitability and pricing stability. Following a successful six-month proof of concept, OKAST moved its FAST workloads to Akamai, enabling the company to run five streaming channels using resources that previously supported only three—a 67% increase in capacity. Akamai's predictable pay-as-you-go pricing, simplified architecture, and integrated cloud compute, storage, and CDN services lowered operational costs, improved margins, and strengthened the company's ability to compete globall
