Blog Cloud Akamai Cloud: New G8 Dedicated Hardware and Performance VM Shapes Sarah Walter is a Product Manager at Akamai, leading cloud compute products with a focus on GPU and accelerated instances. With more than a decade of experience, she brings deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, video processing, and product lifecycle management. She is passionate about building at the intersection of people and technology, and she thrives on solving complex challenges and scaling innovative products that serve media, streaming, and enterprise workloads globally. Over the past few years, much has changed in how applications are built and in what teams expect from their cloud infrastructure. When Akamai acquired Linode, we made a clear commitment to invest in the platform and to evolve it alongside our customers’ needs. That commitment was not just about adding capacity or new regions; it was about making deliberate improvements where they matter most.…