STM Lottery, Malaysia's sole licensed national lottery operator, modernized its digital infrastructure with Akamai App & API Protector to maintain uninterrupted online services during major jackpot events. Frequent traffic spikes reaching 50,000 requests per minute, combined with aggressive bot and scraper activity, caused outages, increased infrastructure costs, and reduced customer confidence. Akamai provided real-time visibility into web traffic, distinguished legitimate users from malicious bots, and protected web applications and APIs across the company's AWS-hosted environment. Following deployment, STM Lottery maintained stable operations during traffic surges up to 15 times normal levels, improved page performance, blocked scraper activity, and reduced infrastructure costs by 10–15

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