This product brief describes Akamai Visitor Prioritization Cloudlet, a waiting-room solution designed to protect websites and applications during periods of unusually high traffic. Instead of allowing backend servers to become overloaded, the Cloudlet intelligently regulates visitor access by directing prioritized users to the application while placing other visitors into a branded waiting room. Administrators can dynamically adjust traffic flow using configurable policies based on protocols, hosts, cookies, file extensions, query strings, and geographic location. Running entirely at the Akamai Edge, the solution maximizes existing infrastructure, prevents site outages, protects critical transactions, and maintains a positive user experience during flash sales, ticket releases, product lau

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