Case Study: Akamai achieves 55% lower streaming costs with Redpanda

Akamai cuts streaming costs by 55% with Redpanda

Akamai, a leading global provider of cloud services, faced escalating costs and high latency in its critical data pipelines used for cybersecurity threat intelligence. Their existing solution, Confluent Cloud, was a top expense and caused delays due to batch processing. They turned to Redpanda to simplify their architecture and reduce infrastructure spending.

By implementing Redpanda Self-Managed (Enterprise), Akamai replaced Confluent Cloud and achieved a 55% cost reduction. The solution provided low-latency, real-time processing of over three million events per second and enabled a cleaner, more scalable architecture. Redpanda also gave Akamai's team greater control and strategic alignment by running on their own Linode infrastructure, all while performing upgrades with zero downtime.

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