Akamai Technologies announced the acquisition of Fermyon, a cloud‑services company that builds serverless WebAssembly (Wasm) platforms, on December 1 2025. The deal expands Akamai’s edge‑compute portfolio by integrating Fermyon’s Spin and SpinKube open‑source projects into its global network of more than 4,000 points of presence.
The transaction price was not disclosed, but the strategic value is clear: Fermyon’s lightweight function‑as‑a‑service technology will allow Akamai to offer developers a more efficient, low‑latency deployment model for applications that run at the edge. Fermyon’s co‑founders, Matt Butcher and Radu Matei, will join Akamai’s Cloud Technology Group, and the company expects to fully integrate the technology into its platform over the next 12 months.
Akamai’s Q3 2025 earnings provide context for the acquisition. The company reported non‑GAAP earnings per share of $1.86, beating analyst consensus of $1.64 by $0.22 (13.4%) and revenue of $1.055 billion, surpassing expectations of $1.04 billion by $15 million (1.9%). The earnings beat was driven by disciplined cost management and a favorable mix of high‑margin edge‑compute contracts, while the revenue gain reflected strong demand for Akamai’s AI‑enabled services and continued growth in its core content delivery business.
Strategically, the acquisition positions Akamai to compete more directly with hyperscale cloud providers in the emerging edge‑AI market. By adding Fermyon’s Wasm runtime, Akamai can run AI inference workloads with lower overhead and faster startup times, a critical advantage for real‑time applications. The move also reinforces Akamai’s open‑source commitment, as the company will continue to support Spin and SpinKube, which are recognized by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation as key components of the cloud‑native ecosystem.
Management highlighted the synergy in a statement: “Fermyon’s FaaS capabilities, combined with Akamai’s cloud, will make it even easier for developers to innovate and execute lightweight code at the edge,” said Adam Karon, COO and GM of Akamai’s Cloud Technology Group. CEO Tom Leighton added that the acquisition dovetails with Akamai’s Inference Cloud, powered by NVIDIA AI infrastructure, to accelerate AI at the edge.
The acquisition follows a period of solid financial performance. Akamai’s Q4 2024 revenue of $1.020 billion and full‑year 2024 revenue of $3.991 billion, both up 3–5% YoY, set a strong baseline. The company’s Q3 2024 results—$1.005 billion in revenue and $1.59 EPS—showed a slight decline in operating margin, underscoring the importance of the new technology to sustain margin expansion in future quarters.
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