# Deployment

Akamas is an on-premise product running on a dedicated machine within the customer environment:

* on a virtual or physical machine in your data center
* on a virtual machine managed running on a cloud, by any cloud provider (e.g. AWS EC2)
* on your own laptop

Akamas also provides a Free Trial option which can be requested [here](https://www.akamas.io/free-trial/).

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