As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 8, 2023

Registration No. 333-            

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

Akamai Technologies, Inc. Second Amended and Restated 2013 Stock Incentive Plan, as amended

(Full Title of the Plan)

Aaron S. Ahola, Esq.

Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary

Akamai Technologies, Inc.

145 Broadway

Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142

(Name and Address of Agent For Service)

617-444-3000

(Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent For Service)

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act.  ☐

REGISTRATION OF ADDITIONAL SHARES

PURSUANT TO GENERAL INSTRUCTION E

This Registration Statement on Form S-8 is filed to register the offer and sale of an additional 7,250,000 shares of the Registrant’s common stock, $0.01 par value per share, to be issued under the Registrant’s Second Amended and Restated 2013 Stock Incentive Plan, as amended (the “2013 Plan”). In accordance with General Instruction E to Form S-8, except for Item 8 “Exhibits,” this Registration Statement incorporates by reference the contents of the Registration Statements on Form S-8, File Nos. 333-188989, 333-204208, 333-218537, 333-231704, 333-258583 and 333-266689 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 31, 2013, May 15, 2015, June 6, 2017, May 23, 2019, August 6, 2021 and August 9, 2022, respectively, relating to the 2013 Plan.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 8. Exhibits.

The following exhibits are filed with or incorporated by reference in this registration statement:

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on this 8th day of August, 2023.

POWER OF ATTORNEY AND SIGNATURES

We, the undersigned officers and directors of Akamai Technologies, Inc., hereby severally constitute and appoint F. Thomson Leighton, Edward McGowan and Aaron Ahola, and each of them singly, our true and lawful attorneys with full power to them, and each of them singly, to sign for us and in our names in the capacities indicated below, the registration statement on Form S-8 filed herewith and any and all subsequent amendments to said registration statement, and generally to do all such things in our names and on our behalf in our capacities as officers and directors to enable Akamai Technologies, Inc. to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and all requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming our signatures as they may be signed by our said attorneys, or any of them, to said registration statement and any and all amendments thereto.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

Exhibit 5.1

				Goodwin Procter LLP 100 Northern Ave Boston, MA 02210 goodwinlaw.com

August 8, 2023

Akamai Technologies, Inc.

145 Broadway

Cambridge, MA 02142

We have acted as counsel to you in connection with your filing of a Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), on or about the date hereof relating to an aggregate of 7,250,000 shares (the “Shares”) of common stock, $0.01 par value per share (“Common Stock”), of Akamai Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), that may be issued pursuant to the Company’s Second Amended and Restated 2013 Stock Incentive Plan (the “Plan”).

We have reviewed such documents and made such examination of law as we have deemed appropriate to give the opinions set forth below. We have relied, without independent verification, on certificates of public officials and, as to matters of fact material to the opinion set forth below, on certificates of officers of the Company.

The opinion set forth below is limited to the Delaware General Corporation Law.

For purposes of the opinion set forth below, we have assumed that no event occurs that causes the number of authorized shares of Common Stock available for issuance by the Company to be less than the number of then unissued Shares.

Based on the foregoing, we are of the opinion that the Shares have been duly authorized and, upon issuance and delivery against payment therefor in accordance with the terms of the Plan, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.

This opinion letter and the opinion it contains shall be interpreted in accordance with the Core Opinion Principles as published in 74 Business Lawyer 815 (Summer 2019).

We hereby consent to the inclusion of this opinion as Exhibit 5.1 to the Registration Statement. In giving our consent, we do not admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act or the rules and regulations thereunder.

Exhibit 23.2

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

We hereby consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement on Form S-8 of Akamai Technologies, Inc. of our report dated February 28, 2023 relating to the financial statements and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, which appears in Akamai Technologies, Inc.’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022.

/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Boston, Massachusetts

August 8, 2023

Exhibit 107

Calculation of Filing Fee Table

Form S-8

(Form Type)

Akamai Technologies, Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

Table 1—Newly Registered Securities