Cloud Files

Unlimited File Storage & Content Delivery
Cloud Files™ provides unlimited online storage for files and media. And, in an industry first, you can deliver that content to your users at blazing speeds over Akamai's content delivery network (CDN).

Store It All, Serve It Worldwide

• Use as much or as little storage as you want and pay as you grow
• Store files as small as a few bytes or as large as 5 GB
• High performance, redundant online storage starting at 15¢/GB
• Cloud Files is built with OpenStack
• Serve media to your users around the globe—fast!
• Utilize CDN delivery of Cloud Files stored content starting at only 18¢/GB
• No minimum commitments or contracts
• Robust RESTful API enables developer access

How It Works

UPLOAD FILES TO THE CLOUD
Store and manage unlimited files—each up to 5 GB in size—using our online control panel, desktop software, or programmatically via the API.

PAY ONLY FOR WHAT YOU USE
Unlike traditional storage solutions, there's nothing to buy and no upfront costs for Cloud Files™. You'll pay only for the file storage space and outgoing bandwidth that you actually use.

KEEP DATA PRIVATE OR SHARE IT PUBLICLY—YOUR CHOICE
Each container that you create for your files can be marked as either private or public. (See "Public or Private" to the right.)

Cloud Files™ Storage Technology
 

Files up to 5 GB in size can be uploaded to Cloud Files™ in one of three ways: through our online control panel, via the Cloud Files™ API, or through software third parties are making for the desktop and mobile devices like the iPhone.	Inside the Cloud Files™ datacenter, intelligent software makes multiple copies of your data on at least three different devices in two distinct zones of the datacenter. (Each datacenter zone uses separate power and network connections.)

Cloud Files™ CDN Technology

The files you elect to be public are shared out over a content distribution network with locations all over the world. The first time your content is served to a worldwide user (one in Tokyo, for example), a copy of the content will be stored in cache on the edge servers in that location.	The next time the content is requested, its pulled directly from the cached copy on the edge servers, dramatically reducing delivery time. In this way, the CDN technology integrated into Cloud Files™ gives your content world-wide presence.