Akamai Edge DNS
Cloud-Based, Managed, Authoritative DNS
About Akamai
Akamai secures and delivers digital experiences for the world’s largest companies. Their intelligent edge platform surrounds everything, from the enterprise to the cloud, keeping apps and experiences closer to users – and threats far away.
About Akamai Edge DNS
While much attention is paid to performance, organizations often overlook the importance of availability and resilience for DNS – especially against DDoS attacks that seek to disrupt the service and prevent end users from connecting. Akamai Edge DNS is designed to remain available through the largest DDoS attacks at global scale with a segmented IP Anycast architecture and multiple DDoS controls, including the ability to leverage other Akamai services when necessary. Offered as a managed DNS service, Edge DNS provides an optimal combination of performance and availability to always connect organizations with their end users.
Akamai Edge DNS Features
- High Availability – Leverage the Akamai platform, with thousands of DNS servers in more than 1,000 points of presence worldwide, to provide a high level of DNS service availability. Edge DNS comes with a 100% uptime service level agreement (SLA), providing you with confidence that your customers and employees can reliably connect to your website and application servers.
- Fast Responses – Direct users to a high-performing DNS server based on network conditions to improve the responsiveness of your DNS infrastructure. The globally distributed Anycast network accelerates DNS resolutions for users connecting to your websites and applications from anywhere in the world, and zone apex mapping reduces DNS lookup times even further for sites on the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform for an additional web application performance boost.
- Resiliency Against DDoS Attacks – Protect against DDoS attacks that target the DNS infrastructure to disrupt websites and application servers. Edge DNS provides a highly scalable DNS platform with sufficient capacity to absorb the largest DDoS attacks while responding to legitimate user requests, helping you to maintain user access to faster online experiences even when you are under attack.
Why Akamai Edge DNS?
Guarantee 24/7 Availabilityby leveraging Akamai’s scalable, globally distributed platform.
Achieve Faster, More Reliable Resolutionwith zone apex mapping and thousands of servers worldwide.
Defend Against DDoS Attackswith the capacity to absorb them and maintain user access.
Prevent DNS Forgery and Manipulationwith optional Akamai Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC).
Simplify DNS Infrastructure Managementwith Akamai Control Center and Edge DNS APIs.
Control Costswith pricing based on the number of zones, not requests.
Pricing and Contact Information
MS-ISAC and EI-ISAC members as well as other U.S. State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial (SLTT) governments, associated nonprofit organizations, and public education and healthcare institutions can purchase Akamai Edge DNS at a discounted rate through CIS CyberMarket.
| Akamai Edge DNS Priced by the number of DNS zones |
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| Number of Zones | CIS Price |
| 1 | $120/month |
| 3 | $195/month |
| 10 | $390/month |
| 25 | $620/month |
| 50 | $950/month |
| 100 |
$1,350/month |
| 250 | $1,900/month |
| 500 | $2,650/month |
| >500 zones | custom price |
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One time integration charge depends on number of zones
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| Akamai Edge DNS with DNS Secure Option (DNSSEC) Priced by the number of DNS zones |
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Number of Zones |
CIS Price |
| 1 | $240/month |
| 3 | $390/month |
| 10 | $780/month |
| 25 | $1,240/month |
| 50 | $1,900/month |
| 100 | $2,700/month |
| 250 | $3,800/month |
| 500 |
$5,300/month |
| >500 zones | custom price |
| One time integration charge depends on number of zones | |
Edge DNS uses a fixed monthly fee per zone per month. In this way, high volume events such as DDoS attacks do not incur costs above expectations. Edge DNS Secure Option includes Akamai’s full sign-and-serve DNSSEC feature set.
For additional product information and documentation, please visit Akamai’s Akamai Edge DNS product page or download the Akamai Edge DNS Product Brief for more details.
