Name: Akamai Edge DNS
Rating: 4.5 (53 reviews)

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Updated 17th November 2025

What is Akamai Edge DNS?

Akamai Edge DNS is a software that provides authoritative domain name system services designed to ensure fast and reliable DNS resolution across global networks. The software features distributed architecture to support high availability and mitigate the impact of localized outages. It supports advanced DNS management including granular access controls, automated zone transfers, and secure updates. Akamai Edge DNS facilitates application performance by leveraging a network of edge servers to reduce latency and improve fault tolerance. The software addresses business needs related to maintaining domain integrity, scalability during traffic spikes, and continuous availability for online applications and services. It is used to enable efficient routing of user requests to appropriate web resources while supporting protection against DNS-based threats.

Overall experience with Akamai Edge DNS

Director of Engineering

<50M USD, Services (non-Government)

FAVORABLE

“Effective DDoS Issue Resolution with Intuitive Design and Feature-Rich Platform”

5.0

Oct 10, 2025

Nice product with all requires features. It helped to resolve issues we had for ddos.

SENIOR MANAGER

1B - 3B USD, Banking

CRITICAL

“Akamai is a good partner to work with”

3.0

Oct 27, 2025

product is running good as per business and the performance is adequate

About Company

Company Description

Akamai is the AI infrastructure company that builds, secures, and scales applications on a massively distributed network. Our cloud, cybersecurity, and content delivery services give our customers mission-critical resilience, instant AI-driven experiences, and flawless streaming across the globe.

Company Details

Company type

Public

Year Founded

1998

Head office location

Cambridge, United States

Number of employees

5001 - 10000

Website

https://www.akamai.com

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it has all the requirements we needed for ddos attacks. simple interface and rich features made it stand out from other products.

Simple commercial structure commercial model business feedback

Performance, Ease of use, security features and scalability

it should have simple documentation.

Commercials seems high

Nothing that I can think of.

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1B-10B USD

Banking

Review Source

Akamai is a good partner to work with

<50M USD

Services (non-Government)

Effective DDoS Issue Resolution with Intuitive Design and Feature-Rich Platform

Head Cloud Services

Media

Scalable DNS Solution Integrates Easily With Systems and Offers High Security

Oct 11, 2025

The service provided robust scalable solution for our DNS need. Its been easy to integrate with existing system.The performance and reliability of the platform has been excellent.

IT Security & Risk Management Associate

50M-1B USD

Frequent DDoS Attacks Prevented With Effective Security Measures In Place

great product and have prevented multiple ddos attacks and overall great security posture management . quite satisfied with the product.

IT Manager

10B+ USD

Excellent availability and CDN integration but lacks metadata.

4.0

May 12, 2025

Akamai edge DNS integrates well with their CDN offering and has great availability. Only criticism would be the lack of tagging for DNS entries for use with cloud meta data.