Akamai has launched distributed compute regions for Edge computing workloads.

In a recent blog post, the company revealed that is now offering distributed compute regions in 10 major metros across the US, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania.

The blog post by senior product marketing specialist Maddie Presland said that the offering will help reduce latency by bringing the infrastructure closer to the end user.

Presland noted: "Global organizations and companies looking to reach customers in regions that are underserved by historically centralized cloud providers are often stuck with suboptimal workarounds with local providers."

The Distributed Compute Regions are located in Denver, Colorado; Houston, Texas; Querétaro, Mexico; Bogotá, Colombia; Santiago, Chile; Marseillle, France; Hamburg, Germany; Johannesburg, South Africa; Auckland, New Zealand; and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Presland said that the company's ability to offer this finds its origins in its "long history as a CDN provider" which has enabled Akamai to "establish relations with Edge data centers."

Akamai evaluated its Distributed Cloud Region offering during a beta period and found that offering dedicated instances that brought Akamai's core compute regions to Edge locations "exceeded beta testers’ performance expectations to reach end users in their target regions."

The Distributed Cloud Region offering is available via dedicated CPU plans ranging from 4GB RAM/2 CPUs to 96GB RAM/48 CPUs and starting at $43 per month.

This month has also seen Akamai acquiring customer contracts from bankrupt CDN firm Edgio.

Akamai has been expanding into data center and Edge computing in recent years.

The company has also been hoovering up CDN assets and customers as others exit the business. Lumen and StackPath last year quit the CDN business, selling their enterprise customers to Akamai.