Case Study: Akamai achieves 100x scalability and higher profit margins with Snowflake

Optimizing web and mobile application performance with powerful analytics

Akamai, the world’s largest content delivery network, needed a more scalable and cost-effective way to handle growing volumes of real-user monitoring data from its mPulse product. The legacy on‑premises data warehouse required many servers, heavy maintenance and high capital and operational costs, creating capacity limits and management headaches as usage and storage needs surged.

Akamai moved mPulse to Snowflake’s fully managed, elastic cloud data warehouse, enabling pay-by‑the‑second performance, near‑instant scaling and affordable long‑term storage. The change eliminated warehouse management, improved profit margins, made 100x scalability possible on demand, increased historical data retention, and simplified secure data sharing—freeing teams to pursue larger customers and new product innovation.

Akamai

Eric Ellis

Senior Software Architect