Overview of Akamai Kona Site Defender
Akamai Kona Site Defender, part of Akamai's Cloudlets offerings, is a powerful solution designed to enhance web experiences effortlessly with robust, self-serviceable apps. These Cloudlets are extensions to Akamai's delivery solutions that add discrete functionality to address specific business or operational challenges. By bringing business logic closer to end users and executing it at the edge of Akamai Connected Cloud, Cloudlets enable users to customize and optimize their web experiences based on their unique needs. With an easy-to-use user interface and API suite, Cloudlets can be self-provisioned and self-configured for maximum efficiency.
Features and Capabilities of Akamai Kona Site Defender
Akamai Kona Site Defender offers 11 different Cloudlets that perform a variety of operations to enhance user experiences. These operations include load balancing, API prioritization, audience segmentation, and more. Each Cloudlet is purchased individually through the Akamai Marketplace and easily provisioned in Property Manager. Cloudlets can be designed and configured through a user-friendly interface or via the Cloudlets API, providing users with seamless control over their web experiences.
Benefits of Using Akamai Kona Site Defender
By leveraging Akamai Kona Site Defender, users can have a greater impact on their digital experiences by running application logic at the edge. This enables common use cases like load balancing to be executed closer to end users, resulting in improved performance and user satisfaction. Additionally, users can achieve greater scale and offload by providing branded waiting rooms or offloading processing from redirects and URL rewrites. Akamai Kona Site Defender also offers granular traffic control, allowing users to load balance apps, control traffic migration, and segment traffic based on policies for enhanced user experiences.
Common Use Cases and Applications of Akamai Kona Site Defender
Akamai Kona Site Defender can be utilized to address various common challenges, such as improving user experiences, increasing control, reducing costs, and offloading business logic to the edge. For example, the Visitor Prioritization and Virtual Waiting Room Cloudlets enable the creation of specific visitor journeys during peak traffic conditions. Similarly, the API Prioritization Cloudlet allows users to serve API traffic to specific segments while providing an alternate static experience to others, optimizing user experiences based on varying needs.