AKAMAI WEB PERFORMANCE SOLUTIONS: PRODUCT BRIEF

The Challenge of Scaling and Managing APIsAPIs empower you to enable new business models, monetize data, and increase collaboration with partners, thus putting them at the center

of every digital experience. But as your API traffic increases, and APIs become a central part of your digital strategy, it becomes critical that you

have the control to ensure reliable experiences for your API consumers. 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. Enabling API key management and authentication in the cloud can keep you focused on ensuring you deliver superior digital

applications and outcomes.

Introducing Akamai API GatewayThe Akamai API Gateway helps you control, authenticate, authorize, and scale APIs that are crucial for enabling new customer-focused business

models. API Gateway leverages Akamai’s cloud delivery platform that delivers over 445 billion API interactions a day and empowers you to provide

performance, offload, and reliability to API consumers.

The Akamai API Gateway provides API owners with specific access, policy, and traffic controls on the Akamai platform. Since this work occurs

at the edge, it results in improved scale and reliability for API authentication, authorization, and quota management.

By leveraging the global reach and sophisticated automation in the Akamai Intelligent Platform™ to deliver and authenticate your APIs, you

can spend more time focusing on API strategy, design, and implementation instead of building and maintaining management infrastructure.

Key CapabilitiesPushing 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

• Simplify API key management

• Drop unwelcome API calls before they reach your infrastructure

Quota Enforcement

• Set and enforce the number of API requests allowed per hour, per API consumer

• Ensure appropriate access and eliminate misuse

• Further enhance security by pairing with industry-leading web application firewall and DDoS solutions

Tools for API Developers

• 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

• Gain insight into API consumption and health

Seamless Integration with Akamai Platform

• Empower API owners to leverage platform benefits

• Protect APIs endpoints from malicious traffic with DDoS and bot management solutions

• Improve API performance with caching, routing, and protocol optimizations

Akamai API GatewayScale access and simplify policy & traffic controls for APIs

Akamai API Gateway

AKAMAI WEB PERFORMANCE SOLUTIONS: PRODUCT BRIEF

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Why AkamaiBy 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.

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 with over 200,000 servers across 130 countries, 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 monitoring. To learn why the top financial institutions, e-commerce leaders, media & entertainment providers, and government

organizations trust Akamai please visit www.akamai.com, blogs.akamai.com, or @Akamai on Twitter. You can find our global contact information at www.akamai.com/

locations, or call 877-425-2624. Published 05/18.