Case Study: Subito achieves 100% uptime and mitigates DDoS attacks with Akamai Technologies

Subito Mitigates DDoS Attacks and Achieves 100% Uptime with Akamai

Subito is Italy’s leading online classifieds site, serving about 8 million unique monthly users across 37 categories. As traffic grew, the platform became a frequent target of large volumetric and application-layer DDoS attacks; its previous mitigation tools caused loading delays and threatened availability, so Subito needed a solution that ensured uninterrupted service, simplified attack management, and supported safe feature releases.

Subito implemented Akamai Kona Site Defender, Fast DNS and Web Performance solutions to protect against network- and application-level attacks, offload traffic, and speed content delivery. Akamai’s platform now detects and blocks millions of suspicious requests weekly, delivers a 90% offload rate, and has enabled five-nines/100% availability during attacks, while also supporting blue‑green and canary releases so the security team can focus on new services instead of defending infrastructure.

Subito

Marco Cupidi

Chief Technology Officer