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Fastly Edge Cloud Platform

Fastly Edge Cloud Platform
Formerly Deliver@Edge

Overview

What is Fastly Edge Cloud Platform?

Fastly, headquartered in San Francisco, offers the Fastly Edge Cloud Computing, Content Delivery Network (CDN) (formerly Fastly Deliver@Edge). Priced by bandwidth in gigabytes and number of file requests, Fastly supports image optimization, video and streaming, load balancing, and cloud security…

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Recent Reviews

Fastly Review

9 out of 10
March 19, 2019
Incentivized
Fastly is a highly performant CDN and edge computer service, with an impressive list of clients that use its services. Unlike most …
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Pricing

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Requests

$0

Cloud
per 10,000 requests

Next 10TB

$0.08

Cloud
per GB/per reigon

First 10TB

$0.12

Cloud
per GB/per reigon

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Details

What is Fastly Edge Cloud Platform?

Fastly Edge Cloud Platform Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

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December 09, 2021

Quality Edge Delivery Service

Verified User
Engineer in Professional Services
Internet Company, 201-500 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We used Fastly both as the pre-configured caching backbone for all our customers as well as a highly-customized edge provider for customers who required more control than the pre-configured version gave them. The use cases could be anything from SEO optimization to enhanced security protection. We also implemented Fastly as a means of providing additional functionality, such as edge logging and image optimization, that could be scaled across multiple web properties with a single configuration.
Pros and Cons
  • Comprehensive API.
  • Feature-rich UI.
  • Excellent documentation.
  • Fine-grained custom VCL.
  • WAF is hard to configure.
  • No comprehensive rate limiting without a pricey upgrade.
  • Account access controls are extremely limited.
Likelihood to Recommend
The service is really well-suited for pretty much any site that is primarily display-driven (that is, mostly GET requests). The network is able to handle massive volumes of traffic and their POPs have spread out pretty much anywhere that it's easy to get them (so basically everywhere but China and Russia). My team witnessed several large-scale attack attempts on some high-profile websites (attacks in the 10s of millions of requests per second) that were mitigated before ever coming back to the actual application; in one case we didn't realize the attack had happened until we looked at the logs the next day. Because it's a cache store option, the default configuration does not cache POST responses, and it can be difficult to set up things like authenticated paywalls as a result.
Most Important Features
  • Support.
  • Security - either the in-house waf or recent Signal Sciences acquisition.
  • Speed.
  • API-driven allows us to use Terraform or custom REST calls to quickly spin up new configurations.
Return on Investment
  • Adding a custom fastly implementation to our sales SKUs opened up 10s of millions of dollars in ARR in a single year.
  • Fastly enabled us to sell to nearly 100 customers a year that we otherwise would not have been able to service.
  • We did end up needing to spend nearly $500k/yr for custom TLS certificates (2000 domains).
Other Software Used
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