{"url":"https://newsforagent.com/news/2026-10-15/akamai-cloud-customer-adoption","markdown_url":"https://newsforagent.com/news/2026-10-15/akamai-cloud-customer-adoption.md","title":"Akamai Cloud Adds AI and SaaS Customers","headline":"Akamai Cloud Wins AI, Logistics and Media Customers Across APJ and EMEA","description":"Akamai announced new Akamai Cloud Computing customers across AI, logistics and media, with software and SaaS firms leading the additions.","section":"Product Launches","published_at":"2026-10-15T11:03:51+00:00","modified_at":"2026-10-15T11:03:51+00:00","author":"News Desk","key_takeaways":["Akamai announced new customer adoption for Akamai Cloud Computing services across software, digital media and technology organizations.","Software and SaaS companies represented the overwhelming majority of new customers, and APJ and EMEA accounted for most additions.","Adam Karon, Chief Operating Officer and General Manager of Akamai's Cloud Technology Group, said enterprises can no longer treat cloud compute as a one-size-fits-all model."],"companies":[{"name":"Akamai","is_primary":true,"profile_url":"https://akta.pro/company-profiles/00004bi/akamai","website":"https://www.akamai.com"}],"source":{"publisher":"GlobeNewswire","title":"AI, Enterprise SaaS Workloads Drive Akamai Cloud Momentum","url":"https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/10/15/3381456/0/en/ai-enterprise-saas-workloads-drive-akamai-cloud-momentum.html"},"other_sources":[],"tags":["Product Launches","Akamai"],"body_markdown":"[Akamai](https://akta.pro/company-profiles/00004bi/akamai) announced a new wave of customer adoption for its Akamai Cloud Computing services on October 15, 2026, spanning software, digital media and technology organizations. The Cambridge, Massachusetts company said the additions were driven by enterprise demand for high-performance CPU-based compute, specialized GPU capacity and resilient storage. [GlobeNewswire](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/10/15/3381456/0/en/ai-enterprise-saas-workloads-drive-akamai-cloud-momentum.html) published the announcement.\n\n## Akamai Cloud's New AI and SaaS Customers\n\nSoftware and SaaS companies represented the overwhelming majority of new customers, according to the company. Adoption of specialized accelerated compute was driven by customer wins for Akamai's NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPU instances for AI and compute-heavy workloads. Asia-Pacific & Japan and EMEA accounted for most new customer additions, and Akamai also added customer logos in business services, digital media and streaming.\n\nA leading North American technology innovator is deploying the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPU infrastructure for high-performance AI model testing and specialized compute piloting. An Asia-Pacific logistics technology provider serving global supply chains is migrating its AI-driven warehouse tracking and automation workloads to Akamai Cloud, displacing multiple legacy cloud providers. A developer platform is migrating its core microservices architecture from a major hyperscaler to Akamai LKE, deploying a mix of GPU, shared and dedicated compute instances alongside cloud firewalls to scale nearly 1,500 active microservices. A global digital media producer selected Akamai GPU compute instances for streaming infrastructure, video rendering and content distribution, while a European healthcare research institution is deploying Akamai Cloud infrastructure for secure, redundant cloud storage and disaster recovery.\n\n\"As AI and data-heavy applications mature, the underlying infrastructure supporting them must evolve,\" said Adam Karon, Chief Operating Officer and General Manager, Cloud Technology Group at Akamai. \"Enterprises can no longer afford to treat cloud compute as a one-size-fits-all model. That shift is why technology leaders are turning to Akamai for high-performance compute and GPU capacity where efficiency and scale matter most.\"\n\n## Akamai's Cloud Infrastructure Spending\n\nAkamai priced an upsized $3 billion 0% convertible senior notes offering in May 2026, with approximately $2.958 billion in net proceeds to fund accelerated Cloud Infrastructure Services capex and roughly $350 million of share repurchases, according to [akta.pro company records](https://akta.pro/company-data). The company reported first-quarter 2026 revenue of $1.074 billion, up 6% year-over-year, and raised its full-year 2026 guidance to $4.445-$4.550 billion. Akamai's platform spans 4,350+ edge points of presence in 130+ countries.\n\n## Akamai's Earlier Cloud and Partner Moves\n\nAkamai expanded its collaboration with NVIDIA in June 2026 to embed Akamai Guardicore Segmentation into AI factory infrastructure via NVIDIA Vera BlueField-4 STX and the DOCA platform, with availability expected in the second half of 2026, according to akta.pro company records. In the same month it launched a unified Agentic Security Framework for Bot & Agent Control across six pillars, delivered through partnerships with Visa, Experian, Auth0, Ping Identity, Skyfire, TollBit and TrafficPeak. SoftServe joined Akamai's Partner Connect program in September 2026 to help enterprises optimize multicloud environments and deploy edge AI, [Stock Titan](https://akta.pro/news-signals) reported.\n\n## Akamai's Next Steps\n\nAkamai said the NVIDIA Guardicore Segmentation integration is expected to be available in the second half of 2026. The company directed readers to akamai.com/cloud for more on Akamai Cloud.\n","publisher":{"name":"News for Agent","url":"https://newsforagent.com"}}