Linode (Akamai Cloud): Announced product price adjustments starting April 1

Akamai is currently the world's largest CDN service provider, with more than 240,000 servers deployed in more than 130 countries and regions around the world, and has an extensive and highly distributed CDN network.

After spending $900 million to acquire Linode, an established cloud host provider, Akamai changed its brand name to Akamai Cloud Computing Services, which is Akamai cloud computing services.

Product price adjustment announcement: https://www.linode. com/blog/linode/akamai_cloud_computing_price_update/

This price increase is a bit large, the specific content is:

1. The price of dedicated CPU instances and shared CPU instances will increase by 20%, and the minimum package of $5 will remain unchanged. 2. The price of adding IPv4 has increased from $1/month to $2/month, while IPv6 is still free. 3. The traffic price is reduced from 0.01 knives/GB to 0.005 knives/GB, and the maximum traffic that can enjoy preferential prices per month is up to 1PB.

Explanations given by merchants for a series of adjustments:

1. Akamai, like other vendors, faces growing macroeconomic pressures from data center space, energy and hardware costs. The adjusted price is still 60% cheaper than hyperscale data centers and is on par with or lower than many other competitors. (Instance price increase by 20%) 2. Akamai expressed its unwillingness to abandon individual customers, so the price of the Nanode model at US$5/month remains unchanged. 3. High-speed network transmission has become an obstacle to data freedom. When Akamai acquired Linode, it promised to use the revenue from the CDN network to significantly reduce the price of export bandwidth. (Traffic costs are halved)

Foreign netizens said they did not buy it:

Max:

"While we have increased prices on our shared and dedicated plans, our prices are still 60% lower than those in large hyperscale data centers and on par with or lower than many of our other competitors."

Yes, until you catch them. Listen to me and thank you~

Jason:

This is ridiculous, the price of these resources is going down, not up. This is just about making money, I may move to another platform.

An unhappy customer:

Raising prices by 20% with one month's notice seems quite unfriendly. We are all going through an economic crisis, but not everyone can handle a 20% monthly rate hike without losing all their customers.

I hope you don't lose all your clients, but... there are other options on the market and you now have a reason to proactively check them out, no matter how long we use your services, okay For Linode, this is obviously the first test after the Akamai acquisition.

YK：

The former "small company" Linode was good enough for us. We don't need you to "grow our cloud portfolio" and any costs that come with it (as you said in your first paragraph).

We made a bet in the office on how long it would take for Akamai to raise prices after acquiring Linode - it looked like "a year" and the bettor was the winner... …

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