Fastly CDN Overview

Fastly-cdn enhances customer experience by speeding up dynamic content delivery. Event-driven and unpredictable content is efficiently cached by Fastly's cloud CDN.

Use Cases

Customers recommend Advertisement, Workflow Management, Forecasting, as the business use cases that they have been most satisfied with while using Fastly CDN.

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Business Priorities

Enhance Customer Relationships and Acquire Customers are the most popular business priorities that customers and associates have achieved using Fastly CDN.

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Fastly CDN Use-Cases and Business Priorities: Customer Satisfaction Data

Fastly CDN works with different mediums / channels such as Website.

Peer review evidence (same sources as the product rating summary)

"...These cookies track your online activity on fastly.com to help Fastly deliver targeted advertising to you while you are browsing other websites...." Content Delivery Network for Faster Page Load
"...Make changes on the fly, instantly roll back code, and safely experiment at the edge with our API-first platform fully integrated into your continuous deployment workflow. ..." Content Delivery Network for Faster Page Load
"...Instant Purge and batch purging with surrogate keys let you cache and invalidate highly dynamic content with a mean purge time of 150 milliseconds*. Serve headlines, inventory, or weather forecasts that are always up to date...." Content Delivery Network for Faster Page Load

Fastly CDN, belong to a category of solutions that help Content Management Systems. Each of them excels in different abilities. Therefore, determining the best platform for your business will depend on your specific needs and requirements.

Fastly CDN Customer wins, Customer success stories, Case studies

 

CAMPFIRE - Crowdfunding - Medium

The Story of Migrating CAMPFIRE's Image Delivery to Fastly Without Downtime

CAMPFIRE successfully migrated its image delivery infrastructure to Fastly's Image Optimizer without downtime. The project involved phased rollouts and DNS switches, maintaining SEO and page performa...nce. The migration reduced image delivery costs and stabilized CDN cache hit rates. CAMPFIRE's engineering team implemented a CDN abstraction layer and collaborated with Fastly for parameter compatibility using VCL.

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Companies using Fastly (customer list)

Fastly is used by over 41,000 companies, with 735 customers facing renewal soon. The most common industries are construction, and the typical company size is 11-50 employees. Fastly's services includ...e CDN and firewall solutions for websites.

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Fastly powers Layercake edge shift for live streaming

Fastly's edge cloud platform has been deployed by Layercake, a digital engineering firm, to enhance live streaming capabilities. This deployment shifts processing from central infrastructure to the n...etwork edge, improving scalability and performance during traffic spikes. Layercake's Streamcake platform benefits from Fastly's technology, enabling efficient handling of live video demand surges and reducing operational costs. Fastly's Object Store demonstrated superior performance in vendor tests, supporting Layercake's innovative edge solutions.

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LeanTaaS - Information Technology And Services - Medium

Santa Clara, USA

LeanTaaS used Fastly's Next-Gen WAF to protect its cloud-based APIs and web services. The company needed real-time security insights and HIPAA compliance for its healthcare software. Fastly's solutio...n gave LeanTaaS full visibility and proactive threat blocking, including zero-day attacks. Deployment took less than 40 minutes and integrated smoothly with their CI/CD pipeline. LeanTaaS now has strong web application security and compliance in a highly regulated industry.

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LaunchDarkly - Information Technology And Services - Medium

Oakland, USA

LaunchDarkly used Fastly Compute to deliver feature flags to end users in real time. The company needed to update application settings instantly for customers. With Fastly, LaunchDarkly achieved near...-instant edge delivery and scalable control. They now handle up to 6 trillion feature flag requests per day. This improved reliability and speed for their clients.

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LaunchDarkly - Information Technology And Services - Medium

Oakland, USA

LaunchDarkly used Fastly to deliver feature flags to end users in real time. They achieved near-instant application configuration changes for their customers. Fastly's API and CDN helped LaunchDarkly... scale to handle billions of feature flag requests daily. The solution enabled 90% of requests to be served in under 10 milliseconds. LaunchDarkly improved reliability and scalability for their SaaS platform.

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FEATURE RATINGS AND REVIEWS
Custom Reports

2.93/5 ★

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Analytics

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CAPABILITIES RATINGS AND REVIEWS
Custom Reports

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Fastly CDN Integrations

Fastly CDN integrates with a wide range of software applications through its robust data import and export capabilities.

Data Import

3.50/5 ★

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New Relic

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Datadog

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Pinterest

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MediaMath platform

4.01 5
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Fastly Inc News

Company

Fastly expands India focus as AI traffic grows

Fastly is expanding its infrastructure in India to address the growing AI traffic, which has increased by 30% between January and May 2026. The company has increased its Points of Presence to over 60 in India, enhancing network capacity to manage AI-driven workloads. Fastly emphasizes the strategic role of edge infrastructure in handling AI traffic's cost, performance, and security challenges.

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Product

Fastly-Terraformer: Convert Fastly Setup to Terraform

Fastly introduces fastly-terraformer, a tool that converts existing Fastly infrastructure into Terraform code, facilitating infrastructure as code adoption. This tool automates the generation of Terraform import blocks, enabling seamless integration of Fastly services, security, and logging into version control, enhancing team collaboration and disaster recovery.

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Partnership

Beyond the Bot Block: How Fastly and Experian Are Turning AI Agent Traffic into Revenue

Fastly and Experian have partnered to enhance AI agent traffic management through the Experian Agent Trust ecosystem. This collaboration enables real-time verification and monetization of AI agents at the network edge, transforming security risks into revenue opportunities. Fastly's edge network facilitates rapid trust decisions, integrating seamlessly with existing systems to support agentic commerce.

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Automated Payments at the Edge with x402 and Fastly Compute

Fastly demonstrates the integration of x402 protocol with Fastly Compute to enable automated payment enforcement at the edge. This setup allows HTTP services to require payments before requests reach the origin, utilizing Fastly Compute as the enforcement point. The demo illustrates how this can be applied to API endpoints, agent transactions, and premium content access, showcasing a practical use of automated payments in edge computing.

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Fastly Inc Profile

Company Name

Fastly Inc

Company Website

https://www.fastly.com/

HQ Location

475 Brannan St. #300, San Francisco, CA 94107

Employees

251-500

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