Resilience Across the Digital Ecosystem: Akamai Launches Managed Service for API Performance
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:
"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.
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