Akamai Tool Is Said to Protect Vaccine Websites Against Heavy Traffic
Akamai leveraged the Salesforce Vaccine Cloud platform to develop a tool for helping organizations scale their online distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, it said Tuesday. The tool, called Vaccine Edge, helps groups enhance the registration and signup process when vaccination websites…
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“are under duress due to high demand,” said Akamai. Vaccine Edge helps power “fast page load times regardless of the number of users registering simultaneously,” it said. “When loads are too high, Vaccine Edge passes users to a waiting room to keep the site available so that the user can maintain their location in the queue.” It’s embedded with denial-of-service protection to help monitor and block bad actors trying to take down sites “by overwhelming them with targeted requests,” it said.