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

 

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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The RealReal - Retail - Medium

San Francisco, USA

The RealReal faced 31,000 attacks each month and needed strong security without slowing developers. They used Fastly's CDN, Next-Gen WAF, and Bot Management to block malicious traffic and protect use...r data. Fastly's intuitive tools let new security engineers onboard quickly and work with developers to deploy code multiple times a day. Real-time dashboards and integrations with GitHub and Terraform gave visibility and control. The RealReal now delivers a trusted, seamless experience for luxury shoppers and sellers.

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The Weather Company - Information Technology And Services - Large

Atlanta, USA

The Weather Company uses Fastly to deliver accurate weather forecasts to 400 million monthly users. Fastly's edge cloud platform helps ensure reliable and fast online experiences. The partnership sup...ports high traffic and real-time data needs. The Weather Company benefits from improved scalability and performance.

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Sofascore - Internet - Medium

Zagreb, Croatia

Fastly helped Sofascore deliver real-time sports data to 34.5 million users. Sofascore faced 20x traffic spikes during major games, causing outages and stale content with their old CDN. Fastly's Inst...ant Purge and custom VCL let Sofascore cache dynamic content and handle huge surges. Cache hit rates reached 99% during peak events. Response times dropped from 200ms to 20ms in Brazil and 500ms to 80ms in Australia. Sofascore eliminated global Varnish servers and now solves issues in real time.

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Shutterstock - Digital Publishing - Large

New York City, USA

Shutterstock used Fastly Compute to scale AI model datasets. In the first 90 days, they delivered over 115 petabytes of content. They cut storage layer operating costs by 68%. Shutterstock saved more... than $100,000 per month on object storage. Delivery costs dropped by $500,000. Customers now get better prices and faster service.

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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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MediaMath platform

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Pinterest

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New Relic

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Datadog

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Fastly Inc News

Product

The Fastly C++ SDK is Now Generally Available

Fastly has launched its C++ SDK for edge computing, now generally available. This SDK enables developers to run C++ code on Fastly Compute with WebAssembly, offering ultra-low latency and security benefits. Key use cases include optimizing legacy code, enhancing gaming logic, and leveraging the C++ ecosystem for agentic systems.

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Fastly and Skyfire Partner to Enable Trusted Agentic Commerce with ...

Fastly and Skyfire have partnered to integrate Skyfire's identity and payment infrastructure into Fastly's edge cloud platform. This integration enables real-time verification and transaction capabilities for AI agents, transforming agent traffic into accountable e-commerce opportunities. The solution enhances security and scalability, allowing enterprises to manage AI agent interactions efficiently without re-architecting existing systems.

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How Fastly and Skyfire Enable Trusted Agentic Commerce at the Edge

Fastly and Skyfire have integrated their technologies to enable trusted agentic commerce at the edge. Skyfire provides AI agents with verified identity and payment capabilities, while Fastly's edge cloud platform handles agent identity verification and payment validation. This integration allows businesses to manage AI agent traffic efficiently, ensuring secure and scalable operations without re-platforming.

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Executive

Fastly, Inc. Announces Executive Changes, Effective June 3, 2026

Fastly, Inc. announced executive changes effective June 3, 2026. Jeffrey Ford was appointed as the principal accounting officer, while Richard Wong will continue as CFO but cease his role as principal accounting officer.

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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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