Linode to be acquired by Akamai

[NickMNS]

Just saw this not sure how this will impact their services and prices moving forward.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 15, 2022 – Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the world’s most trusted solution to power and protect digital experiences, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Linode, one of the easiest-to-use and most trusted infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform providers.

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[tangor]

Just saw this not sure how this will impact their services and prices moving forward.

Can't speak to that ... but am constantly reminded that bigger fish eat the smaller fish. :)

[robzilla]

Interesting. I would be surprised if it affects pricing negatively, there's not much separating them from DigitalOcean after all. But integration of Akamai services into Linode, like CDN and edge computing, could certainly give them an edge over their competitors, and that seems to be the goal:

The marriage of Linode’s compute and storage products with Akamai’s serverless, CDN, and security solutions, will give customers a broader range of services to build, modernize, and scale the next generation of applications.

For the immediate future, we will continue to operate as we always have. Akamai has no intention of changing what has made us successful. This acquisition will propel us both forward — not take anything away. Linode will soon be able to call on the power of Akamai to offer entirely new products, services, expertise, locations, and scale, while Akamai will be able to tap into Linode’s deep expertise in compute, storage, and on-demand infrastructure-as-a-service.

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[SumGuy]

"infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform providers"

How about Scraping-as-a-Service ?

How about Exploitation-as-a-Service ?

That's why I block Linode and DigitalOcean (and dozens of others) from reaching my web and mail servers.

Akamai is a different beast - I'm not sure what exactly their business model is but I never see any malarkey from their IP addresses.

[robzilla]

Not sure what your point is there, but the low pricing and accessibility of these providers make them attractive to all kinds of developers. Not all of those will behave themselves, but abuse reports are acted upon promptly, in my experience. And you can't really blame the providers for their customers' legal use of the infrastructure (including scraping).

As for Akamai, I'm surprised you don't know them, they've been around for so long. The very first CDN.

[SumGuy]

I never see Akamai IP's hitting my web server, port-scanning my IP, or hitting me with spam. The complete opposite of Linode, Digital Ocean, Amazon or Google User Content, Microsoft, or countless others (and no I don't mean the legit traffic from gmail, googlebot, bing bot, outlook, etc).

[robzilla]

That's almost like saying you don't ever see any Walmart IPs hitting your web server. Of course you don't.*

or countless others

Exactly. You can see this sort of traffic from any company that rents out infrastructure like Linode, including your own hosting provider probably. And there are tens of thousands of them, some are just bigger than others. I still don't see your point.

* Though post-acquisition you may start seeing Akamai-owned IPs if they end up sharing their IP spaces.