Fastly is a highly performant CDN and edge computer service, with an impressive list of clients that use its services. Unlike most traditional CDNs, Fastly requires that all traffic be served through it via a CNAME change, similar to CloudFlare (as opposed to a more traditional CDN, like Cloudfront or MaxCDN). This gives Fastly the ability to quickly serve even very low TTL event content, like game scores, news, and stock prices.
- Very performant and fast -- major companies have drastically reduced page load times with Fastly's edge technology.
- Support for many types of media, including video.
- Image add-on makes serving and manipulating images very simple.
- Setup can be difficult -- but only because the service is so robust and provides so many features.
- Minimum spend is $50/month, even if you are not using the service enough to have spent the $50.