EdgeDNS

Akamai Edge DNS is a global, highly scalable domain name system (DNS) service offering security, resilience from DDoS events, and high DNS responsiveness. The Domain Name System (DNS), which translates  human-readable domain names into numerical IP addresses, is a fundamental component in delivering quality web experiences for your website visitors and application users. If your DNS goes down, your online presence goes down. Akamai Edge DNS provides you with comprehensive protection from a wide range of DNS attacks on your DNS infrastructure, whether it be in cloud, on-prem, or hybrid. The solution also offers a high level of DNS performance, resiliency, and availability.

Today’s DNS distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks come with record-breaking scale and sophistication, making protection against them incredibly challenging for global businesses that depend on the 24/7/365 availability of their DNS infrastructure. Akamai Edge DNS is an external authoritative DNS solution that offers:

• Comprehensive security. Protect your DNS infrastructure from increasingly  large, frequent, and sophisticated attacks — in cloud, on-prem, or hybrid
• Unmatched performance. Let the world’s most distributed network alleviate  origin load, provide 24/7 availability, and reduce page load time
• Intuitive management. Self-configure and manage your DNS zones and  enforce your own dynamic policies in real time

Built on a globally distributed anycast network, Edge DNS can be implemented  as a primary or secondary DNS service, replacing or augmenting existing DNS  infrastructure as needed.