Fastly is an edge cloud platform focused on helping organizations run, secure, and deliver websites, applications, and APIs as close to users as possible. Built for modern development teams, its platform brings together content delivery, application and API protection, edge compute, and observability on a programmable network designed for low latency, rapid configuration changes, and real-time visibility.
Fastly serves digital businesses that need both speed and control, particularly for high-traffic websites, streaming media, ecommerce, SaaS, and performance-sensitive application workloads. Its approach centers on giving developers, platform teams, and security teams the ability to customize traffic handling, enforce protection policies, execute logic at the edge, and analyze service behavior without depending on disconnected point tools.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Fastly organizes its portfolio across network services, security, compute, observability, and expert services. The platform is designed to accelerate content and application delivery, protect websites and APIs from modern threats, run application logic at the edge, and surface operational data in real time for troubleshooting and optimization.
The platform supports deployment across edge, cloud, containerized, and hybrid environments. Fastly integrates with major cloud providers and common engineering workflows, including AWS-based origins, Google Cloud services such as Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, and BigQuery, infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD tooling, and real-time log streaming into external analytics and security ecosystems.
Products and Services
- Content Delivery (CDN): Core delivery service for accelerating websites, applications, APIs, and personalized content on Fastly’s edge network.
- Live Streaming: Live media delivery for major HTTP streaming formats, built to scale large audiences with low latency and operational visibility.
- Next-Gen WAF: Unified web application and API protection for applications, APIs, and microservices across edge, cloud, and on-premises environments.
- Bot Management: Edge-based bot detection and mitigation that helps teams distinguish legitimate automation from abusive or fraudulent traffic.
- DDoS Protection: Application and API DDoS mitigation designed to absorb disruptive traffic and preserve availability.
- API Security: API discovery, monitoring, and abuse protection to identify exposed endpoints and stop malicious API traffic.
- Edge Compute: Programmable serverless edge environment for running application logic, routing, security enforcement, and real-time processing close to users.
- Key Value Store: Edge data storage for globally available key-value data, configuration, and reduced origin dependency.
- Real-time Logging: Customizable log streaming and in-app viewing for immediate traffic, performance, and troubleshooting visibility.
- Edge Observer: Unified observability interface for live and historical traffic metrics, dashboards, and service-level insights.
- Client-Side Protection: Controls and inventories client-side resources and scripts to reduce browser-side risk and support compliance requirements.
- AI Bot Management: Controls AI crawlers and scraping activity by detecting, allowing, blocking, or deceiving unwanted AI bots.
- Object Storage: S3-compatible object storage with zero egress fees for direct access to large files from Fastly services.
- Professional Services: Advisory, onboarding, migration, optimization, and training services that help teams deploy and improve Fastly environments.
- Managed Security: Managed application security service with expert monitoring and proactive attack mitigation support.
Target Customers
Fastly targets organizations whose revenue, brand, or customer experience depends on fast, reliable, and secure digital delivery. Its customer focus spans online media and streaming providers, digital publishers, ecommerce and retail brands, financial services firms, high-tech and SaaS companies, travel and hospitality organizations, online education providers, and gaming platforms.
The platform is especially well suited to enterprises and digital-native businesses with high traffic volumes, dynamic content, APIs, or latency-sensitive workloads. Within those organizations, Fastly serves developers, platform engineering teams, DevOps and SRE leaders, security teams, and digital experience owners that want more programmable control, stronger observability, and simpler operation across cloud and hybrid environments.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplace
- AWS Marketplace: Fastly Edge Cloud Platform is available through AWS Marketplace, alongside AWS-focused integrations for origin delivery, security, and streamlined procurement.
- Microsoft Azure Marketplace: Fastly Edge Cloud is listed in Microsoft Azure Marketplace, providing Azure customers with a marketplace procurement path for Fastly edge delivery and security services.
- Google Cloud Marketplace: Fastly is available on Google Cloud Marketplace and aligns with Google Cloud services such as Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, and BigQuery for simpler deployment and purchasing.
Key People
- Kip Compton: Chief Executive Officer and Director
- David M. Hornik: Chairperson of the Board of Directors
- Scott R. Lovett: President, Go to Market
- Artur Bergman: Chief Technology Officer and Director
- Richard Wong: Chief Financial Officer
- Kelly Shortridge: Chief Product Officer
- Joan Jenkins: Chief Marketing Officer
- Tara Seracka: Chief Legal and Administrative Officer
- Kim Ogletree: Chief Customer Officer
- Hossein Lotfi: SVP of Engineering
Key Facts
- Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States
- Employees: 1,140
- Annual Revenue: $624.0M
- Parent Company: None
- Subsidiaries: Approximately 9 material subsidiaries, including Signal Sciences, LLC, Fastly International (Holdings) Limited, Fastly International Technology Limited, Fastly Australia Pty Ltd, and Fastly Kabushiki Kaisha.
- Publicly Listed: Nasdaq: FSLY
Analyst Recognitions
- Gartner: 2025 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer for Cloud Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) – Customers’ Choice. 2025 Gartner Market Guide for Edge Distribution Platforms – Representative Vendor.
- Forrester: 2026 The Forrester Wave: Edge Development Platforms, Q1 2026 – Leader. 2025 The Forrester Wave: Web Application Firewall Solutions, Q1 2025 – Strong Performer.
- IDC: IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Edge Delivery Services 2024 Vendor Assessment – Leader.
