Transcript Akamai DNS Offerings

Akamai DNS Offerings
RSA© Conference 2013
Akamai DNS Solutions
Enhanced DNS (eDNS)
• Scalable, outsourced, DNS solution to
direct end-users to websites
• Primary and Secondary DNS available.
Global Traffic Manager
• DNS based Global load balancing platform
• Shift traffic based on – datacenter availability and geography
Akamai DNSSEC
• Allows customers to offload DNSSEC
support to Akamai
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Akamai DNS Platform
Highly Scalable
Highly Reliable
• Runs on ~2000 servers
• Distributed across 100+ points of presence
(3-5 times more than nearest competitor)
• Normal traffic < 1% of capacity
• Sized to handle largest botnets
• Deployed on a global
IP Anycast DNS network
• 24x7 availability
Protection for Increases in Traffic Volume
• Pay by number of Zones – NOT DNS requests
• No extra charge for DDoS attack traffic
• No additional charges as traffic grows
Globally Distributed
Secure
• Per IP address throttling to avoid DNS
reflection and DNS flooding attacks
• Prioritizes traffic from known good name
servers to prevent IP spoofing attacks
• No two customers share the same
list of DNS Anycast IPs
• 22 countries – and more coming…
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Akamai DNS Platform
Proprietary implementation
SLA
• Fully compliant with DNS specification
• Completely independent from other
DNS name server code bases
• 100% uptime
• e.g. BIND, MS DNS, DJBDNS
• Akamai will serve DNS resolutions 100% of the
time for customer owned DNS zones configured to
use the eDNS service
• Not susceptible to vulnerabilities found in
other DNS offerings such as BIND
Code base
• Smaller, more focused and not
controlled by the configuration
• Tighter control; fewer vulnerabilities
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DNSSEC Solution Highlights
Key Benefits
• On-demand scalability for additional DNS traffic
• Significant reduction in operational overhead to
maintain DNSSEC compliance
• Customer doesn’t need to re-sign zones periodically
• Customer doesn’t need to manage keys
and key rotations
• Increased security and reliability
• Leverages Akamai’s proven Key Management
Infrastructure
• Infrastructure offload for the additional
DNS traffic and resources
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©2013 AKAMAI | FASTER FORWARDTM