Vendor Sheet
Akamai API Acceleration: Reliable API Performance at Scale
This product brief describes Akamai API Acceleration, a cloud-based solution that improves API performance, reliability, and scalability by optimizing the delivery of transactional traffic across Akamai Connected Cloud. The platform accelerates XML, JSON, GraphQL, and other API requests through intelligent routing, edge caching, protocol optimization, compression, and scalable authentication while reducing load on origin infrastructure. Additional capabilities include origin failover, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 support, routing optimization, token authentication, TLS encryption, geographic content targeting, and origin IP access controls. Backed by a 100% uptime SLA, API Acceleration helps organizations maintain consistent performance during traffic spikes, lower infrastructure costs, and improve u
