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

 

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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Layercake Scales Live Streaming at the Edge with Fastly - Content + Technology

Layercake enhances its live streaming capabilities by leveraging Fastly's edge computing technology. This collaboration allows Layercake to deliver high-quality, low-latency streaming experiences to ...its users, showcasing Fastly's robust infrastructure and performance benefits.

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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

2.93/5 ★

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CAPABILITIES RATINGS AND REVIEWS
Custom Reports

2.93/5 ★

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Analytics

2.93/5 ★

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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

4.55 5
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Pinterest

4.54 5
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MediaMath platform

4.01 5
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Datadog

4.36 5
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Fastly Inc News

Partnership

Fastly, Inc.: Fastly Joins Experian Agent TrustTM Ecosystem to Advance ...

Fastly has joined the Experian Agent Trustâ„¢ ecosystem to enhance trusted AI commerce. This collaboration aims to enable enterprises to verify AI agents, authorize transactions, and make real-time trust decisions, supporting the growth of autonomous commerce.

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Fastly Joins Experian Agent TrustTM Ecosystem to Advance Trusted AI Commerce

Fastly has joined Experian's Agent Trust ecosystem to enhance AI commerce by verifying AI agents and authorizing transactions in real time. This integration allows businesses to leverage Fastly's edge platform to secure AI-driven transactions without altering existing infrastructure, thereby transforming AI agents into a trusted digital commerce channel.

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Awards

Fastly recognized as a Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers' Choice for Edge Distribution Platforms

Fastly has been recognized as a Customers' Choice in the 2026 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer report for Edge Distribution Platforms. Fastly received a 95% willingness-to-recommend score and an overall rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars based on 92 reviews. This recognition reflects the positive experiences of customers who have implemented and used Fastly's platform.

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Awards

Fastly Earns Gartner Customers' Choice for Edge Distribution Platforms

Fastly has been recognized as a Gartner Customers' Choice for Edge Distribution Platforms, earning a 4.8/5 star rating from 92 reviews and a 95% Willingness to Recommend score. This accolade highlights Fastly's strong position in edge computing, emphasizing performance, security, and developer experience amid growing AI adoption.

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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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Financials

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