See Akamai's edge & security capabilities in action
This site is a running sandbox I use with customers to demonstrate what Akamai can actually do at the edge — not slides, real requests. Each card below is a self-contained scenario that gets wired up to an Akamai property so you can watch the platform work in real time.
Demos
New scenarios added regularlyEdge Redirector
Redirect traffic at the edge — legacy URLs, device splits, geo and A/B routing — without touching the origin.
Open demo →App & API Protector
WAF, rate controls and API schema enforcement in front of a sample application.
API Security
Discovery, risk scoring and shadow/zombie API detection.
Bot Manager
Detecting and handling automated traffic against a sample login/checkout flow.
Guardicore
Microsegmentation concepts applied to an east-west traffic scenario.
Akamai Inference
Running inference workloads close to the edge.
Firewall for AI
Protecting LLM-backed endpoints from prompt injection and abuse.
About this site
Edge Playground is a personal, ever-growing demo environment — hosted on Linode and fronted by Akamai — built to make security and edge concepts tangible for customers instead of abstract. It is not an official Akamai property; it's a solutions-engineering tool.