Akamai Cloud Computing Foundations case studies
Akamai Cloud Computing Foundations · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The Akamai Cloud Computing Foundations credential is an entry-level certification intended for people who want to demonstrate baseline fluency with Akamai's cloud platform - compute, storage, networking, security, and day-to-day operational and cost-management concepts. It suits cloud administrators, DevOps and platform engineers, solutions and sales engineers, and technical staff early in their cloud careers who need a vendor-specific foundation before moving on to deeper specialisations. The Akamai Cloud Computing Foundations case studies are 5 cases and about 3,220 words.
1Nightly Batch Contention on Shared-CPU Instances
A 30-person SaaS company runs a customer-facing analytics dashboard and a nightly media-transcoding batch in the same region. Both workloads share four 8 GB shared-CPU Compute Instances ($48/month each) behind a NodeBalancer.
619 words, about 3 min245 TB of Images Outgrowing Block Storage
A photo-print service stores about 45 TB of customer images - originals plus generated previews - and grows roughly 2 TB per month. Six Block Storage volumes of about 7.5 TB each are attached to two application servers, and a nightly rsync job copies them between hosts for redundancy.
642 words, about 3 min3NodeBalancer Flapping and Global Latency
A SaaS vendor runs a public web application on six Compute Instances in a single region behind a NodeBalancer that terminates TLS. The backend health check is an HTTP GET to /health on port 3000, interval 3 s, timeout 2 s, two retries before a node is marked down.
648 words, about 3 min4A Leaked Token, a Contractor, and Wide-Open Ports
A 14-person engineering team operates about 40 Compute Instances and one LKE cluster under a single Akamai Cloud account. Automation runs on one API token with read/write across all resource types; it is stored as a repository secret in GitHub Actions and was also pasted into a shared Slack channel three days ago during an incident.
650 words, about 3 min5A $3,100 Bill and Nine Instances Powered Off
A team runs 22 Compute Instances and one LKE cluster. The monthly compute invoice is 3,100 against a 2,000 budget.
661 words, about 3 min