What is Fastly?
Fastly is a cloud edge platform founded in March 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. Its services include a CDN for caching and delivery, Compute (a WebAssembly-based edge runtime), and a security stack covering WAF, bot management, API security and DDoS protection. Fastly's own pricing page lists a Free tier, usage-based Growth pricing, and custom Enterprise packages alongside flat-rate Network Services, Compute, Observability and Security packages.
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Sources checked 27 September 2026: Fastly, Fastly documentation, Fastly pricing.
FastlyNetwork SecurityCDN, edge compute, and web app/API security platform
Key capabilities
- CDN and caching: global content delivery with configurable cache rules.
- Compute: WebAssembly-based edge compute for application logic close to users.
- Security: WAF, bot management, API security and DDoS protection as separately configurable services.
- Observability: real-time logging and metrics for traffic through the platform.
Fastly's edge platform can combine delivery and security, but the benefit depends on correctly configured caching and security rules for your specific traffic. Pricing and scope are drawn from Fastly's own pricing page, checked 27 September 2026.
“CDN, edge compute, and web app/API security platform”
Technical details
- Access
- See vendor
- Source model
- Commercial
- Founded
- 2011
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- API
- Not specified
- Website
- www.fastly.com ↗
What to verify
Start from the users, systems and operating responsibilities the tool needs to support.
- Confirm current features, licensing and support terms.
- Validate deployment, data location and access control.
- Test integrations, exports and recovery workflows.
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