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Resilience Across the Digital Ecosystem: Akamai Launches Managed Service for API Performance
Thursday, October 2, 2025
Expert-managed API tuning delivers stronger security with less effort
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online, announced Managed Service for API Performance. Leveraging the APIContext platform, this service combines proactive testing, expert analysis, and customized optimization to help businesses keep their APIs fast, reliable, and compliant in today's complex digital environments.
As enterprises increasingly depend on APIs to deliver mission-critical services across platforms, ensuring their performance has never been more important -- or more challenging. Unlike traditional system monitoring, APIs require specialized oversight to manage workflows, authentication protocols, compliance requirements, and global infrastructure.
Akamai Managed Service for API Performance directly addresses these challenges. The service continuously tests, monitors, and guides API environments to ensure uptime, speed, and adherence to standards -- even across multicloud or hybrid deployments.
"APIs are now the heartbeat of business. Keeping them fast, resilient, and standards-aligned is a competitive advantage," said Patrick Sullivan, CTO of Security Strategy at Akamai. "With Akamai Managed Service for API Performance, users gain a partner dedicated to anticipating issues, accelerating response, and optimizing performance across the digital ecosystem."
Key features of Managed Service for API Performance include:
-- 24/7 monitoring and incident responseAround-the-clock synthetic testing
and expert incident validation ensure APIs stay operational and
efficient. Built for global scale, the service supports IT staff
augmentation and delivers critical service assurance.
-- Tailored action plansExecutive-level reporting highlights API health
metrics, performance trends, and business impact. Recommendations evolve
with changing environments, refining everything from alert sensitivity
to workflow design.
-- Expert guidanceAkamai analysts uncover hidden performance patterns --
such as slowdowns, schema mismatches, and recurring endpoint failures --
and present findings in clear, actionable reports.
-- Comprehensive performance monitoringIdentifies geographic and
network-based anomalies while validating APIs against OpenAPI specs and
regulatory benchmarks. Synthetic checks run continuously, triggering
immediate alerts and expert-led investigations for any interruptions.
-- Cloud and infrastructure visibilityMonitors multicloud environments, DNS
and SSL configurations, and the full internet delivery chain to pinpoint
bottlenecks from source to user.
-- Performance and compliance baselinesEstablishes benchmarks for API
health and integrates seamlessly with existing performance monitoring
tools, enabling better correlation and insight across observability
stacks.
-- Built for regulatory frameworksAPIContext monitors both performance and
conformance, ensuring APIs meet the availability, latency, and other
requirements set by DORA, NIS2, MAS TRM, SEC SCI, and other financial
and critical infrastructure regulations.
-- Audit-ready evidenceEvery synthetic call is logged with full
traceability, producing a tamper-proof record of uptime, response
integrity, and standards adherence -- giving compliance officers
defensible proof during audits or regulator inquiries.
"With resilience requirements becoming more prominent, uptime is now a business imperative," said Mayur Upadhyaya, CEO of APIContext, the offering launch partner. "APIs sit at the heart of digital services, and their performance directly shapes customer experience and digital experience alike. Working with Akamai, we're enabling enterprises to meet these demands with confidence."
Akamai expands its API security capabilities with this new managed service to provide not just protection -- but proactive performance optimization. Organizations can now offload the burden of continuous API tuning to Akamai's experts, ensuring better business outcomes and user experiences.
About Akamai
Akamai is the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online. Our market-leading security solutions, superior threat intelligence, and global operations team provide defense in depth to safeguard enterprise data and applications everywhere. Akamai's full-stack cloud computing solutions deliver performance and affordability on the world's most distributed platform. Global enterprises trust Akamai to provide the industry-leading reliability, scale, and expertise they need to grow their business with confidence. Learn more at akamai.com and akamai.com/blog, or follow Akamai Technologies on X and LinkedIn.
About APIContext
APIContext offers end-to-end monitoring for APIs, applications, and AI infrastructure, empowering enterprises to build resilience by optimizing performance, mitigating risks, ensuring regulatory compliance, and delivering exceptional product experiences. More information is available at?apicontext.com.
Media Contact
Akamai PR, akamaiPR@akamai.com
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