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The emergence of public cloud platforms and services has IT organizations thinking
about which applications they want to keep in-house and which they can build within
the cloud. For example, Amazon EC2 has become a popular service platform for running
applications in the cloud. While these public cloud offerings often simplify management
of IT infrastructure and generate savings on capital and operating expenditure, we believe
they do not adequately address performance and availability issues related to the Internet
cloud itself.
Cloud computing platforms are typically built on “big data-centers” in a small
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number of locations- as a result, the experience tends to degrade as a user gets
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further from the data-center. Even users in the same country as the data-center
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are often subject to unacceptable performance and availability as a result of
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sub-optimal routing and the chatty protocols that govern the Internet. This
phenomenon calls for a highly distributed architecture to optimize website
and application delivery from the application user to the regional data center.
Combining an optimized cloud with a virtual computing service like Amazon
EC2, can help enterprises overcome slow response times and spotty availability,
to improve application adoption and help businesses realize the expected
benefits of their public cloud computing initiatives.
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majority of your users are not buying Internet connectivity from the same
provider servicing the cloud provider’s datacenter
• Even when large datacenters reside within the world’s largest networks,
average distance between a user and the datacenter may exceed 1,500 miles
Figure 1: Based on a study of sample of IP Traceroutes, the table above shows that an application user
in Frankfurt would traverse 3 or more ISP’s 74% of the time to connect to application infrastructure
also located in Frankfurt, but using a different service provider.
Akamai Cloud Optimization for EC2™ AKAMAI CLOUD OPTIMIZATION FOCUS SHEET
End User
Akamai
Edge Servers
Legend
SaaS or Custom
Application Running
on Amazon EC2
Infrastructure
End User
Distributed Akamai
Edge Servers
How it Works
Akamai’s cloud optimization services leverage a network of tens Enterprises should feel comfortable deploying Akamai’s
of thousands of servers located in more than 1,000 networks Application Performance Solutions to improve the global
in 70 countries. The network is controlled by an intelligent system delivery of their enterprise collaboration tools. Application
that routes requests based on real time Internet conditions. Performance Solutions are backed by service level
Performance improvements are gained through several techniques agreements (SLAs) that guarantee defined global and
such as dynamic mapping, pre-fetching, caching, and route performance improvements and network availability.
and protocol optimizations.
The solution requires no additional hardware, software,
Akamai maps user requests to an optimal Akamai server, located or code changes. It is easy to deploy and seamlessly
very close to the end user. Dynamic route optimization technology integrates with your Amazon EC2 environment.
identifies the fastest, most reliable path between the end user
Akamai’s EdgeControl management portal also provides
and cloud infrastructure, helping avoid Internet congestion,
a convenient web-based interface with advanced
peering issues and other bottlenecks. The graph below displays
reporting capabilities to monitor performance of your
the percentage of content delivered via an alternate, optimized
cloud based applications.
route. In this case traffic is sent along the optimized route 85.9%
of the time, on average, maximizing performance and ensuring
application availability across the cloud.
Amazon EC2 is a Trademark of Amazon Web Services LLC, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. and
is used for descriptive purposes only and without intent to imply endorsement of Akamai services.
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