Azure CDN from Akamai supports HTTP/2
Published date: August 09, 2016
We are pleased to announce support for HTTP/2 in Azure CDN from Akamai profiles. HTTP/2 is a major revision to HTTP/1.1. It provides faster web performance, reduced response time, and improved user experience, while maintaining the familiar HTTP methods, status codes, and semantics. Though HTTP/2 is designed to work with HTTP and HTTPS, many client web browsers support only HTTP/2 over TLS.
No further action is required from customers to enable HTTP/2 support.
The benefits of HTTP/2 include:
- Multiplexing and concurrency
- Header compression
- Stream dependencies
For more information on HTTP/2 and Azure CDN, see HTTP/2 Support in Azure CDN.
For more information on Azure CDN features, see the Azure CDN overview.