Akamai to shut down its CDN operations in China
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Akamai to shut down its CDN operations in China
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#3> Akamai to shut down its CDN operations in China
...and continue offering the same service by reselling Tencent's CDN.
Looks like they're making this one of the things in China that has to be provided locally?
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#4https://www.akamai.com/newsroom/press-release/akamai-announc... related
Is it? I'm not familiar enough with those certifications to know if that requires them to divest of their offerings in China.
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#5https://www.akamai.com/newsroom/press-release/akamai-announc... related
Is it? I'm not familiar enough with those certifications to know if that requires them to divest of their offerings in China.
It’s not. They’ve held FedRAMP certifications for more than a decade.
Source: ex-Akamai InfoSec employee
Re: Akamai to shut down its CDN operations in China
#6> Akamai to shut down its CDN operations in China ...and continue offering the same service by reselling Tencent's CDN. Looks like they're making this one of the things in China that has to be provided locally?
They don’t want foreign businesses having a solid foothold in the country.
Re: Akamai to shut down its CDN operations in China
#7> Akamai to shut down its CDN operations in China ...and continue offering the same service by reselling Tencent's CDN. Looks like they're making this one of the things in China that has to be provided locally?
They don’t want foreign businesses having a solid foothold in the country.
Control is important during both global decoupling and potential geopolitical conflict (Taiwan).
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#8> Akamai to shut down its CDN operations in China ...and continue offering the same service by reselling Tencent's CDN. Looks like they're making this one of the things in China that has to be provided locally?
This can often occur when parts of the application are out of their control. For example, geographical apps are hard to recreate locally on the scale of Google or Apple Maps. It's vastly easier and sometimes cheaper to use their API. But if China has any disputes on how it's represented in the geo data, the software becomes a liability.
Re: Akamai to shut down its CDN operations in China
#9I see a lot of US organizations decoupling stuff from China, especially if it's fairly peripheral, such as pulling back from running events there. But there's also a lot of more fundamental second-sourcing and the like.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is it? I'm not familiar enough with those certifications to know if that requires them to divest of their offerings in China.
It’s not. They’ve held FedRAMP certifications for more than a decade. Source: ex-Akamai InfoSec employee
The requirements of the certification might change for political reasons.