Akamai Connected Cloud, formerly Linode, offers a globally distributed cloud computing platform designed for building and delivering low-latency, edge-native applications. It provides a range of compute, storage, and networking services, including Essential Compute, GPU Accelerated Compute, Kubernetes, and various database solutions. The platform emphasizes lower costs, reduced latency, cloud portability, and a global scale, making it suitable for developers and businesses looking to deploy applications closer to their users. Akamai Connected Cloud aims to simplify cloud infrastructure management while ensuring high performance and reliability for a variety of use cases, from AI inferencing to e-commerce and gaming.