EdgeWorkers

For the first time, Akamai is introducing an all-new serverless compute capability to help you customize web traffic, expanding the possibilities of personalized engagement with your customers while putting the flexibility and control in the hands of your developers. Developers can now manipulate JavaScript at the Edge, injecting business logic at the point of customer interaction to support contextual and low-latency use cases that will help power innovation in customer experience online.

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Animated GIF optimization

Image Manager (IM) can now intelligently optimize and compress antimated GIFs to automatically create all necessary derivative versions while maximizing byte savings. IM will even convert animated GIFs to animated WebP for Chrome for the best format conversion.  

Network-aware intelligence

IM is now able ot automatically optimize and deliver image and video derivatives based on dynamic network conditions for high-latency cellular and terrestrial networks. This enhancement will prevent over-downloading and is designed to ensure intelligent network-aware optimizations that produce the best user experience from wherever your customers access content.

UI and reporting enhancements

An intuitive and user-friendly UI with in-context help, a larger preview panel, and easy-to-use workflow makes it easier to build policies and utilize more artistic transformations, straight out-of-the-box. Moreover, the Image Manager Dashboard now includes video optimization data showing seconds transmitted, byte savings, video errors, content delivered, video popularity, device breakdown, and play trends, among other metrics.

IMQuery

The new IMage Manager Query-based Language (IMQuery) allows developers to apply one, all, or any comibnation of artistic image transformations from a single query string parameter. And with this policy, administrators can choose to limit which Image Manager transformations are exposed or available. In short, IMQuery allows users to convert their favorite IM Policy into query language (and vice versa!)

Annotations in mPulse for Script Management

Introducing new annotations in mPulse real user monitoring dashboards that pinpoint when performance settings were tuned, helping you confirm the value of configuration changes in script management to help you monitor and evaluate the resulting impact on your real users’ experience.

JSON Web Key Set

This enhancement enables customers to publish (rotate) new RSA signing (public) keys for JSON Web Tokens in a more seamless and efficient manner.

Request Rerouting

Request rerouting allows customers to alter API traffic routing based on inbound request characteristics.

UI Enhancements

GTM has added a number of requested enhancements to the user interface for easier sorting, searching and reporting, as well as an option to disable liveness testing. GTM support is also now integrated into Terraform, the widely used open source data center management tool.  

CLI Interface

Akamai’s command line interface (CLI) now supports GTM, allowing customers to create and manage domains and associated objects, update datacenter configurations, update property configurations, or query the current status of properties or data centers.

Log Watermarking

GTM logs are now watermarked to be compliant with Sarbanes-Oxley controls designed to prevent billing errors or inconsistencies.

Platform Performance Enhancements

We’ve invested in infrastructure and enhancements that to increase offload for web performance customers and also make secure connection times even faster.

Faster onboarding for new properties and security configurations

We’re also excited to announce that onboarding is getting faster, and we’ve reduced end-to-end onboarding time for a new property by 97%. Certs, new properties, and new security configurations deploy more quickly and there is a new, simpler secure provisioning workflow available via API.