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Akamai Brings Key Value Data to the Edge, Adds API Acceleration

Content delivery network (CDN) services provider Akamai has expanded its edge serverless compute platform, EdgeWorkers, with the addition of data at the edge with this week’s launch of its EdgeKV key-value store. Released into beta earlier this year, EdgeKV is now generally available and gives developers access to a lightweight database at the edge, rather than in data centers.

CJ Arnesen, senior product manager for edge computing at Akamai, said that EdgeKV complements Akamai’s edge compute, something the company had offered previously in the form of pre-determined functions, but more recently updated to a serverless model with EdgeWorkers, which allows users to run JavaScript at the edge.

It’s great to have edge compute, but part of that story is accessing data, or even writing data.

The data that you need is always at your fingertips locally on your edge server, but we continue to synchronize and write it globally,” he said.