Akamai acquires Linode for US$900 million (RMB 5.7 billion). Akamai, a well-known overseas CDN service provider, recently announced that it will acquire Linode, an AWS competitor, for US$900 million.

Akamai Technologies announced today that it has entered into an acquisition agreement with infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform provider Linode worth approximately $900 million. Founded in 2003, Linode has always wanted to be an IaaS alternative to public cloud service providers such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. This acquisition will help Akamai realize its grand vision of "the world's best distributed computing platform".

Akamai of Cambridge, Mass., said in a press release:

The goal of the acquisition is to provide developers with a distributed platform for building, running and securing "next generation" applications, especially as Linode seeks to differentiate its offering from AWS rivals .

Linode also wrote on the website:

AWS is undoubtedly the elephant in the cloud market, and if your large enterprise needs more infrastructure customization capabilities, it may be a better fit. But if you're just a small business owner or independent developer, accessing all these advanced cloud technologies can be prohibitively expensive. Not to mention the many unnecessary complexities, risks of being tied to the Amazon ecosystem, and frequent surprise billing charges.

In contrast, Linode greatly simplifies the deployment associated with running applications in the cloud: spin up your server in seconds and enjoy a simple API, CLI, and cloud manager interface. It can be said that Linode is designed for developers, startups, and small and medium-sized enterprises.

Linode's current operations will continue as usual, and the company said Akamai has "no intention to change what makes us successful."

" Linode founder Christopher Aker wrote: "There are natural synergies between Akamai and Linode, not only in our mission and culture, but also in the combination of our respective powerful strengths. "Linode's compute and storage offerings combined with Akamai's serverless, CDN and security solutions will provide customers with a broader range of services to build, update and scale next-generation applications.

Unlike Linode, Akamai has never offered developers much of a self-service SaaS offering, which is widely expected in the market. With this, it has established itself in the field and acquired a company that, despite some security lapses in the past, is still highly regarded by many developers who have used it in professional and side projects over the years. company.

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