The Encoder Got Faster While You Slept | How VPUs On Akamai Cloud Change The Cost And Scale Of Video Encoding

Cloud video infrastructure is getting squeezed from both sides: audiences expect better quality and more formats like AV1, while finance teams are staring down cloud bills that don’t scale with reality. We sit down with Sarah Walter from Akamai for a one-year check-in on VPU-accelerated instances powered by NETINT, and what stands out is how quickly the conversation has moved from pilots to production. Sarah shares what she’s seeing across customers, from hyperscalers expanding internationall...