Autonomous system
AS20940 AKAMAI-ASN1
Hosting RIPE
Summary
Akamai Technologies (Akamai International)
cdn security edge
One of Akamai's core Autonomous Systems. Akamai runs one of the oldest and most widely distributed CDNs, with edge servers embedded deep inside thousands of networks.
What it's used for
- Caching and accelerating content for large enterprises, media companies, banks, and software vendors.
- Edge security (WAF, bot management) and software/game download distribution.
Notable
- Akamai's model is extreme distribution — tens of thousands of edge servers inside ISP networks — so an Akamai IP is usually very close to the requester.
- Akamai acquired Linode in 2022; Linode/Akamai cloud compute is a distinct product and may announce from other ASNs.
Interesting
- Akamai grew out of MIT research in the late 1990s on how to serve content reliably during massive traffic spikes ("flash crowds").
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 216 exchanges in 61 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| IX.br (PTT.br) São Paulo | São Paulo, Brazil | 187.16.223.245 |
| OpenIXP Internet exchange Point | Jakarta, Indonesia | 218.100.36.86 |
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.195.168 |
| Indonesian Internet Exchange (IIX-Jakarta) | Jakarta, Indonesia | 123.108.9.37 |
| IX.br (PTT.br) Fortaleza | Fortaleza, Brazil | 45.68.72.180 |
| LINX LON1 | London, United Kingdom | 195.66.224.168 |
| AMS-IX Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 80.249.209.208 |
| Jakarta Internet Exchange | Jakarta, Indonesia | 119.11.184.37 |
Transit providers
185 upstream, 14 downstream and 358 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-26, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 4,426 prefixes · 8.20M addresses IPv6 12,084 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| NL | Netherlands | 16,510 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS20940- Registry name
- AKAMAI-ASN1
- Registrant
- AKAM1-RIPE-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@akamai.com
- Registered
- 2002-08-29
- Last changed
- 2023-03-16
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 99.5% valid · 4,701 valid, 18 with no ROA 5 RPKI-invalid
- ROAs
- 5,326 authorising AS20940
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 99.1% registered · 4,683 of 4,724 announcements 1 other origin
- Route objects
- 5,257 naming AS20940
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 446 networks and 1,852 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere