Akamai introduces new enhancements today to its Prolexic Routed purpose-built DDoS scrubbing service that reflect the changing nature of the threat landscape and capitalize on cloud functionality to enable maximum customer flexibility using newer deployment models.
For anyone worried about DDoS attacks, Akamai's technical and operational core value proposition has always been to provide a carrier-agnostic, fully managed service leveraging purpose-built cloud architectures that are designed to mitigate any DDoS attack, targeting any protocol, no matter what method the attacker uses, and without any performance impact. Today's enhancements extend Prolexic Routed capabilities to continue meeting DDoS challenges for critical infrastructures, the world's financial services industry, the many gaming platforms, and many other types of industries that rely heavily on business operations running on 100% uptime on the Internet.
From the Data Center to the Cloud
Among the standout new features in Prolexic Routed is the new ability to protect cloud deployments. Prolexic started when the cloud was still in its infancy. While Prolexic Routed was the first carrier-agnostic, purpose-built DDoS scrubbing service in the cloud, the customer applications and infrastructure Prolexic was protecting still remained in the data center. A large part of this was due to the technical requirements of a BGP-based DDoS scrubbing service, with public cloud providers not supporting /24 IP address ranges or offering their customers control over their BGP routes.
This all changed in 2018, with public cloud providers such as AWS starting to introduce new "bring your own IP" capabilities and allowing customers to retain control over their BGP routes. In addition, Akamai customers are increasingly interested in migrating portions or the entire data centers to colocation partners such as Equinix and asking how they will continue protecting themselves from DDoS attacks. With today's enhancements, Prolexic ..
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