Fastly

Fastly is an edge cloud platform that helps companies build faster, safer, more scalable sites and apps. It's designed to improve application performance and security while freeing up teams to be more productive. Fastly's modern approach to content delivery, video streaming, security and other tasks is designed to help companies build better applications.

Fastly's platform is programmable from top to bottom, which means it can offer smarter solutions, better visibility and more control. Some of its key features include:

• Network Services: Fast and secure network services for better content delivery.
• Security: Next-Gen WAF and bot management for better application security.
• Compute: A serverless compute environment powered by WebAssembly for performance and security.
• Observability: In-depth logging for real-time visibility into traffic and system health.
• Edge Mesh: 5x faster time-to-first-byte.
• Media Shield: Optimizes multi-CDN deployments, reducing traffic to origin and ensuring high performance.
• Image Optimization: Reduces page load times and improves user experience.

Fastly's pricing is based on usage, with a free tier that includes $50 worth of CDN traffic, no request throttling and no Fastly logos. The usage-based pricing plan starts at $50 per month, plus usage charges, and includes unlimited bandwidth, requests and TLS certificates. Custom pricing is available for enterprise customers.

Fastly is a Customers' Choice for six years in a row in the Gartner Peer Insights 'Voice of the Customer' for Cloud Web Application and API Protection. Its AI Accelerator can speed up OpenAI API responses by up to 10x, making it a good option for companies looking to boost their edge cloud performance.

Fastly is geared for digital publishing, e-commerce, streaming and travel planning companies that need to ensure a good user experience regardless of the device or browser people use. Its flexible solutions are designed to accommodate different industry requirements, and the platform's scalability is designed to support businesses large and small.

Fastly offers a free trial so you can try its services before you buy. That includes a $50 credit for CDN traffic, two free TLS certificates and a 30-day free trial for WebSockets and Image Optimizer. If you want to take advantage of the full power of edge cloud technology, Fastly has a lot of tools and services to help you improve application performance and security.

Published on June 23, 2024