A Cloudlet is a value-added application that complements Akamai’s core delivery solutions to solve specific business challenges. Cloudlets bring a site’s business logic closer to the end user by placing it on the edge of the content delivery platform.

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is a global content delivery network (CDN), cybersecurity, and cloud service company, providing web and Internet security services. Akamai’s Intelligent Edge Platform is one of the world’s largest distributed computing platforms.

The Edge Redirector Cloudlet helps you more efficiently manage large numbers of redirects. By executing redirects at the Akamai edge, you can reduce round trips to the origin and offload hits from your origin infrastructure.

It acts as a front-end shock absorber when peak traffic increases demand for those transactions that require the origin for processing, like shopping cart check-outs, donation pages, service/application subscriptions, and form registrations.

A cloudlet has four key attributes: 1. only soft state: It is does not have any hard state, but may contain cached state from the cloud. It may also buffer data originating from a mobile device (such as video or photographs) en route to safety in the cloud.

Mobile cloud computing allows you to store and retrieve data from anywhere in the world through any device as long as it is connected to the internet. This allows the smooth exchange of data whenever there is a need for information.

The Forward Rewrite Cloudlet helps you create, based on in-bound request information, human-readable and search engine optimization-friendly (SEO-friendly) URLs for dynamically-generated pages.

In a LAN, software that routes workstation (client) requests for data to the server.

Easily deploy application logic at the edge. Akamai Cloudlet applications allow developers to easily deploy application logic at the edge, which means you don’t have to build or maintain this logic at scale.

The Audience Segmentation, Edge Redirector, Forward Rewrite, and Input Validation Cloudlets now have: Faster activation times. Most policy activations for these Cloudlets are live on the network in less than 15 minutes. Activations that impact more than 50 properties won’t see these improvements.

Previously, Edge Redirector was the only Cloudlet that supported the new Shared Policy activation. Shared Policy is now available for the Audience Segmentation and Forward Rewrite Cloudlets. The use of Shared Policy allows using the same policy with all available properties that are tied to the same user account.

Application Load Balancer (ALB) and Visitor Prioritization (VP) cookies have the HttpOnly attribute turned on by default. Using the HttpOnly flag when generating a cookie helps mitigate the risk of client-side script attacks (such as XSS) accessing the protected cookie.