Fastly
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Fastly is an edge cloud platform that helps companies deliver fast, secure, and reliable digital experiences through a globally distributed network with 622 Tbps of capacity. The platform combines content delivery (CDN), application security (including WAF, DDoS protection, and bot management), edge computing, and real-time observability into a single programmable platform. Fastly serves thousands of digitally-advanced companies, processing over 5 trillion daily requests and enabling real-time c...
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Ideal Customer
- Fastly's primary sweet spot is large enterprises and rapidly growing technology-forward companies that require high-performance, low-latency delivery, advanced security, and programmable edge capabilities — defined internally as customers spending $100,000 or more annually.
- As of Q3 2025, Fastly had approximately 3,223 total paying customers, including 627 enterprise customers who historically account for the large majority of revenue.
Key Differentiators
- Fastly differentiates itself through a unique bare-metal edge architecture that offers instant global configuration propagation (typically under 5 seconds), sub-millisecond time-to-first-byte at the 99th percentile, and a fully programmable, API-first platform that developers can control with the same granularity as internal infrastructure — unlike traditional CDNs with opaque configurations.
- The platform's WebAssembly-based edge compute (Fastly Compute) offers microsecond cold starts with no warm-up delay, and its Instant Purge capability clears cached content globally in milliseconds.
Industries Served
- Fastly serves a broad cross-section of digital-intensive industries including media and entertainment, retail and eCommerce, financial services, high tech and SaaS, online gaming, digital publishing, travel and hospitality, online education, healthcare, nonprofits, and government.
- Notable named customers include JetBlue, USA Today Co., Shutterstock, Le Monde, GIPHY, and The RealReal, with streaming entertainment companies historically among its largest revenue sources.
Service Coverage
- Fastly operates a truly global edge cloud network with Points of Presence (PoPs) spanning six continents — North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, South America, Africa, and the Middle East.
- The network covers PoPs in 35 countries, with offices in the USA, UK, and Japan, and the platform delivers over 622 Tbps of connected global capacity.
Partnerships
- Fastly maintains deep technology and cloud partnerships with AWS and Google Cloud as its primary cloud partners, offering streamlined procurement through both the AWS Marketplace and Google Cloud Marketplace — making it the only third-party CDN listed on both major cloud marketplaces simultaneously.
- Fastly achieved Premier partner status with Google Cloud (the highest tier available) dating back to a partnership that began in 2014, and holds AWS Lambda Ready and Amazon Linux Ready designations along with Retail and Security Software Competencies.
Company Size & Ownership
- Fastly was founded in March 2011 (originally as SkyCache, Inc., renamed to Fastly in May 2012) by Artur Bergman, Simon Wistow, and Tyler McMullen.
- The company went public on the NYSE in May 2019 at an IPO price of $16/share, raising $180 million at a ~$1.45 billion valuation.
Compliance & Certifications
- Fastly maintains a comprehensive compliance portfolio including SOC 2 Type 2 (audited against AICPA Trust Service Criteria for Security and Availability), ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification for its Information Security Management System, PCI DSS Level 1 Service Provider compliance (with PCI-compliant caching for customers using Network, Compute, and Observability products, and Level 1 scope for Next-Gen WAF edge and core deployments), GDPR compliance as a data processor, and HIPAA compliance with HIPAA-compliant caching product configurations.
- A third-party security assessment profile also confirms CSA STAR Level 1 compliance and FedRAMP compliance.
Compiled from public sources by VenSearch · Last researched October 13, 2026
Offerings
30 offeringsAI Accelerator
Fastly's AI Accelerator speeds up LLM applications with semantic caching that recognizes similar queries and serves cached answers instantly, cutting latency and API costs. It is designed to reduce redundant calls to AI model providers by intelligently caching responses to semantically similar prompts at the edge.
AI Runtime Control (ARC)
ARC is a unified control plane that sits between applications and AI models, providing centralized visibility, governance, and cost control over all AI traffic. It tracks real-time token spend, enforces budget and rate limits per virtual key, automates multi-provider failover, and includes an AI Firewall module that protects against prompt injection attacks using Fastly's SmartParse detection engine. Teams can audit 100% of AI activity, manage access with virtual keys, and set monthly dollar budget limits with hard-block or alerting options.
API Security
Fastly API Security discovers, protects, and monitors every API, including previously unknown or hidden APIs, to close gaps in application protection. It gives security teams greater visibility and control over the APIs interacting with their applications, including those that exist outside normal visibility.
Bot Management
Fastly Bot Management detects and governs bots, AI agents, and automated traffic without adding friction for legitimate users. It provides controls for identity, policy, and access as agent-driven traffic scales, helping organizations distinguish automated traffic from legitimate users and manage how different types of automation are handled.
Content Delivery (CDN)
Fastly's cloud CDN accelerates the delivery of dynamic content and caches websites' unpredictable and event-driven content to improve customer experience. It features Instant Purge, self-healing infrastructure that reroutes traffic in sub-seconds, advanced caching capabilities, real-time granular log streaming, and seamless integration into DevOps tools via a fully programmable API-first platform. The CDN is designed to reduce egress costs, improve time to first byte (TTFB), and support effortless global scale.
DDoS Protection
Fastly's DDoS protection mitigates volumetric attacks automatically at the edge to keep services online when it matters most. It is edge-native and designed to stop attacks before they reach origin infrastructure, providing protection against denial-of-service vectors as part of a layered defense strategy.
Developer SDKs
Fastly provides official SDKs for writing Compute code in Rust, JavaScript, Go, or C++, along with API clients and hundreds of code examples. These tools allow developers to build applications for Fastly's edge platform using familiar languages and toolchains.
Developer Tools
Fastly's Developer Tools include a CLI, APIs, Fiddle, Terraform, GitHub Actions, and more to help teams build, deploy, manage, and observe applications on Fastly. They integrate with existing CI/CD pipelines and local development environments, and support the same behavior locally as in production.
Domain Inspector
Domain Inspector provides real-time and historical response data for every domain in a Fastly deployment. It gives teams per-domain visibility into traffic behavior and performance as part of Fastly's broader observability platform.
Edge Compute (Fastly Compute)
Fastly Compute is a globally distributed serverless development platform that runs code in a WebAssembly-based sandbox milliseconds from users, with microsecond startup times and no cold starts. Every request runs in its own isolated sandbox with memory wiped between requests, and supports standard languages including Rust, JavaScript, Go, and C++. Developers can deploy code globally in seconds with zero downtime using familiar CI/CD pipelines and local toolchains.
Image Optimizer
Fastly's Image Optimizer is an image optimization API that automates CDN image optimization, resizes and transforms images, and delivers the right format at the edge. It speeds up site performance by processing and serving optimized images directly from Fastly's network without requiring changes to origin infrastructure.
IP Addresses (BYOIP)
Fastly offers dedicated IP addresses or the ability to bring your own IP (BYOIP) to provide stable, exclusive addressing across Fastly's network. This gives customers control over their IP addressing strategy within Fastly's edge infrastructure.
Key Value Store
Fastly KV Store is a high-speed, globally distributed storage platform that simplifies edge data management with support for secure key-value storage and scalable configuration management at the edge. It enables applications to store and retrieve data quickly without round-trips to origin infrastructure.
Live Entertainment Service
Fastly's Live Entertainment service provides real-time monitoring and support for high-traffic live events, helping media companies deliver flawless streaming experiences at scale. It is designed for events with massive concurrent audiences and provides dedicated support during peak traffic periods.
Live Streaming
Fastly's live streaming delivery service scales high-quality streaming worldwide with low latency, resilient delivery, and real-time control at the edge. It is designed for media brands delivering live media content at any scale to any screen, with real-time monitoring capabilities built into the CDN platform.
Load Balancer
Fastly's CDN load balancer balances traffic across origins to improve availability, failover, and performance with real-time global load balancing. It provides self-healing infrastructure that detects failures and reroutes traffic in sub-seconds to ensure all traffic is routed optimally.
Log Explorer & Insights
Fastly's Log Explorer and Insights allows teams to store, view, filter, and analyze log data directly on the Fastly platform without requiring a third-party tool. It provides historical reporting going back to day one and enables teams to detect and investigate issues as they happen.
Managed CDN (mCDN)
Fastly's Managed CDN deploys Fastly's edge cloud hardware and software into a customer's own private network infrastructure at locations of the customer's choosing. It provides the same technology, features, and management tools as Fastly's public CDN but with dedicated POP capacity exclusive to the customer, offering greater privacy, control, and cost savings by leveraging existing transit and peering relationships.
Managed Security Services
Fastly's Managed Security Services combine Fastly's security products with 24/7/365 expert monitoring, incident response, and threat management from Fastly's Customer Security Operations Center (CSOC). Three tiers are offered: Response Security for reactive incident response, Managed Security Professional for proactive monitoring of up to 2 services, and Managed Security Enterprise for comprehensive white-glove defense of up to 10 services including threat hunting and monthly advanced reporting. All tiers include a 15-minute response time SLA and dedicated communication channels with Fastly's CSOC.
MCP Server
Fastly's MCP Server allows customers to control Fastly through natural language, and combined with the Fastly AI Agent Toolkit, gives AI coding agents secure control with the skills to use it correctly. It enables stateless MCP (Model Context Protocol) at the edge, turning each agent tool call into a sub-millisecond hop.
Media Shield
Fastly's Media Shield optimizes multi-CDN deployments while lowering costs by reducing traffic to origin while maintaining high performance. It helps media companies protect content and improve delivery efficiency across complex multi-CDN architectures.
Object Storage
Fastly Object Storage is an S3-compatible storage offering with zero egress fees designed to store images, video, and AI datasets directly at the edge. It provides a cost-effective solution for storing data at the edge and supports direct fetch migration from existing S3-compatible storage systems.
Origin Connect
Origin Connect allows customers to connect their origin to Fastly over the internet, cloud providers, private networks, or internet exchanges for flexible and secure content delivery. It provides multiple connectivity options to optimize how traffic flows between customer infrastructure and Fastly's edge network.
Origin Inspector
Origin Inspector provides real-time and historical response data from origin servers, giving teams visibility into how traffic flows from origin to the edge and back. It is part of Fastly's observability suite and tracks over 200 metrics across performance, traffic, and security.
Professional Services
Fastly's Professional Services team provides expert help for onboarding, migrating to the Fastly platform, and optimizing existing Fastly deployments. Services include guided service implementation, full deployment support, migrations from legacy or competing vendors, performance optimization, VCL training, security configuration, health checks, and streaming video packaging at scale. Expert solution engineers accelerate time-to-value across delivery, security, and edge compute capabilities.
Programmable Cache
Fastly's Programmable Cache provides full programmatic access to Fastly's caching infrastructure, with HTTP, Core, and Simple Cache APIs for total control over caching behavior. It exposes the same caching technology that powers Fastly's CDN to developers building custom edge logic.
Streaming Video (VoD)
Fastly supports just-in-time transmuxing to the most popular streaming formats for any resolution at any frame rate, delivering superior video on demand performance. It helps protect content, provides real-time visibility, and improves user experience by reducing origin load and accelerating time to first frame (TTFF) globally.
TLS Encryption
Fastly's TLS encryption terminates secure TLS connections at Fastly's network edge, offloading encrypted traffic from web servers for improved performance. It supports HTTP/2 and IPv6, and customers can procure TLS certificates on their own or through Fastly.
Web App & API Protection (Next-Gen WAF)
Fastly's Next-Gen WAF stops application-layer attacks with accurate, easy-to-tune protection designed to minimize false positives. It is edge-native and developer-friendly, allowing security teams to fine-tune protection down to the individual rule or endpoint without creating roadblocks for application delivery. Every policy update, rule change, and deployment is logged automatically providing a complete auditable record.
Websockets & Fanout
Fastly's Websockets and Fanout capability delivers real-time WebSockets and pub/sub messaging at global scale, handling millions of connections at the edge so origin servers do not have to. It enables real-time applications like live feeds, chat, and notifications to scale without burdening backend infrastructure.
Considering Fastly?
Our team will work with you to determine if Fastly is the right fit for your organization. From research and assessment through procurement negotiation and ongoing vendor management — we handle the entire process at no cost to you.