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.

Business Priorities

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

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

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

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.

Comprehensive Insights on Fastly CDN Use Cases

Case Studies

CASE STUDY DeNA

Fastly’s Next-Gen WAF helped DeNA improve web security and reduce costs. DeNA faced high operational costs and slow response times with their old WAF, especially during traffic spikes. Fastly’s solut...ion gave DeNA better performance, easier scaling, and deeper visibility across their organization. DeNA no longer needs engineers for manual rule tuning, saving money. Fastly’s dashboards help DeNA see new network activity and block attacks more effectively.

Retail

CASE STUDY MadeiraMadeira

Fastly CDN helped MadeiraMadeira handle an 80% rise in ecommerce penetration in Brazil during the pandemic. The company switched to Fastly two weeks before Black Friday 2019 for more bandwidth and be...tter uptime. Fastly's custom VCL and image optimisation tools improved page load times and increased conversion rates by 20%. DDoS protection secured the site during high-traffic events. Fastly's solutions supported MadeiraMadeira's rapid growth and digital transformation.

Entertainment

CASE STUDY Superology

Fastly helped Superology speed up its mobile betting app and social network for sports fans. Superology used Fastly’s CDN Edge Cloud to deliver content faster and improve user experience. Fastly’s fe...atures like request collapsing, origin shielding, and real-time log streaming made the platform more scalable and reliable. Superology achieved a 98% cache hit rate and can now update content in less than 150 milliseconds. The engineering team found Fastly easy to integrate and praised its direct support.

Information Technology and Services

CASE STUDY Filestack

Filestack used Fastly to scale its file management platform. They needed a CDN to handle rapid growth and added Fastly’s web application firewall and Compute for security. Fastly’s instant purging, c...ustom VCL, and high-density POPs improved performance. Filestack scaled data transfer from 77 terabytes monthly to 18 petabytes annually. Fastly’s TLS management let Filestack grow from a dozen to hundreds of certificates, saving time and effort. Security and file verification now run at the edge, reducing infrastructure load.

Information Technology and Services

CASE STUDY Split

Fastly helps Split deliver feature flags and experiments at scale. Split needed a reliable edge cloud network for fast, global delivery. With Fastly, Split reduced purge times from up to 30 minutes t...o sub-second speeds. Split now serves 1 trillion feature flags per month and supports 1.5 billion users. Fastly's real-time log streaming, instant purge, and predictable pricing support Split's growth. Fastly's support and integrations help Split move faster and avoid errors.

Internet

CASE STUDY Mercari, Inc.

Fastly Compute helped Mercari, Inc. move their mail beacon log analysis system from on-premises to edge computing. Mercari wanted to lower the workload and improve maintainability as their user base ...and data grew. They built a new serverless mail beacon system using Fastly Compute, sending logs to BigQuery and Cloud Storage. The migration reduced operational workload and made log collection easier. The system now runs stably, and Mercari plans to migrate more features to Compute for greater efficiency.

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Fastly Inc News

Awards

Fastly's Seven Years of Recognition as a Gartner Peer Insights Customers Choice

Fastly has been recognized as a Customers' Choice in the 2025 Gartner Peer Insights for Cloud Web Application and API Protection for seven consecutive years. The recognition is based on 130 customer reviews, highlighting Fastly's Next-Gen WAF's effectiveness and reliability. Customers praise its security features, transparency, and ability to meet security goals without issues.

Partnership

Fastly + Scalepost: Extending the Fastly platform to manage AI Crawlers

Fastly has partnered with ScalePost to enhance its platform's ability to manage AI crawlers. This collaboration allows publishers to gain visibility into how their content is used in AI-generated answers, providing insights into AI search footprints and enabling better content management. Fastly's edge-native architecture supports real-time log streaming, offering transparency and control over AI bot traffic.

Awards

Fastly DDoS Protection wins SiliconANGLE TechForward Cloud Security Award

Fastly's DDoS Protection solution has won the SiliconANGLE TechForward Cloud Security Award. The award recognizes Fastly's innovative approach to combating application DDoS attacks, featuring rapid deployment, adaptive threat mitigation, and a robust network capacity of 462 Tbps. The solution is praised for its ability to distinguish legitimate traffic spikes from malicious attacks, offering instant protection with minimal latency.

Executive

Fastly Announces CFO Transition and Executive Leadership Promotion

Fastly has appointed Richard Wong as Chief Financial Officer, succeeding Ronald Kisling. Wong brings extensive finance leadership experience from roles at Benchling and Houzz. Additionally, Scott Lovett has been promoted to President, Go to Market, consolidating revenue and marketing functions under his leadership. These executive changes aim to enhance operational discipline and drive growth.

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

IPO