Linode, a privately owned company headquartered in the US and a subsidiary of Akamai, was founded in 2003 and employs approximately 250 individuals. The company provides IT Services and IT Consulting, functioning as a US-based cloud service provider. Akamai acquired Linode for approximately $900 million on March 21, 2022.
Akamai announced the Limited Availability (LA) of Akamai Cloud Pulse Alerts on July 2, 2026, a real-time infrastructure monitoring feature designed to reduce downtime and improve application reliability for Linode services. This release introduces automated real-time alerts for core Linode offerings such as Database as a Service (DBaaS), Object Storage Logs, and NodeBalancers, enabling developers and Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) to remediate performance issues before they impact global end users. Previously, on June 25, 2026, Linode Interfaces and Default Firewalls became generally available on Akamai Cloud, aiming to offer a simpler, more predictable, and secure approach to managing cloud networking infrastructure.
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