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Akamai DNS Offerings

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Akamai DNS Solutions

Enhanced DNS (eDNS) • Scalable, outsourced, DNS solution to direct end-users to websites

• Primary and Secondary DNS available.

Global Traffic Manager • DNS based Global load balancing platform • Shift traffic based on – datacenter availability and geography

Akamai DNSSEC • Allows customers to offload DNSSEC support to Akamai


Akamai DNS Platform

Highly Scalable • Runs on ~2000 servers • Distributed across 100+ points of presence (3-5 times more than nearest competitor)

• Normal traffic < 1% of capacity • Sized to handle largest botnets

Protection for Increases in Traffic Volume • Pay by number of Zones – NOT DNS requests

• No extra charge for DDoS attack traffic • No additional charges as traffic grows

Globally Distributed • 22 countries – and more coming…

Highly Reliable • Deployed on a global IP Anycast DNS network

• 24x7 availability

Secure • Per IP address throttling to avoid DNS reflection and DNS flooding attacks

• Prioritizes traffic from known good name servers to prevent IP spoofing attacks

• No two customers share the same list of DNS Anycast IPs


Akamai DNS Platform

Proprietary implementation • Fully compliant with DNS specification • Completely independent from other DNS name server code bases

•  e.g. BIND, MS DNS, DJBDNS

• Not susceptible to vulnerabilities found in other DNS offerings such as BIND

Code base • Smaller, more focused and not controlled by the configuration

• Tighter control; fewer vulnerabilities

SLA • 100% uptime

• Akamai will serve DNS resolutions 100% of the time for customer owned DNS zones configured to use the eDNS service


DNSSEC Solution Highlights

Key Benefits • On-demand scalability for additional DNS traffic • Significant reduction in operational overhead to maintain DNSSEC compliance

• Customer doesn’t need to re-sign zones periodically • Customer doesn’t need to manage keys and key rotations

•  Increased security and reliability • Leverages Akamai’s proven Key Management Infrastructure

•  Infrastructure offload for the additional DNS traffic and resources
