Fastly is a programmable edge cloud platform that differentiates itself through its instant global content delivery network (CDN) with sub-second purge, allowing developers to update content and configurations across all edge nodes nearly instantly. Unlike traditional CDNs, Fastly's platform offers granular control via VCL (Varnish Configuration Language) and a powerful API, enabling customers to build, secure, and deliver highly customizable digital experiences. Its integrated security suite includes next-gen WAF, DDoS protection, and bot management, all operating at the edge for low-latency protection. Fastly supports modern protocols like QUIC and HTTP/3, and its video streaming solutions provide live and on-demand capabilities with features like media shield and cache reservation.
Fastly highlights credential stuffing and account takeover as major threats to gaming platforms, emphasizing their impact on player trust and revenue. The company advocates for edge-based mitigation strategies, combining behavioral analysis and real-time decisions, to stop automated attacks without disrupting legitimate players. Fastly's Bot Management and Next-Gen WAF products are presented as solutions to protect gaming accounts and APIs at the edge.
Fastly has joined the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) to contribute to the development of open standards for Edge AI interoperability. The company highlights its MCP Server for secure, sub-millisecond execution of agentic sub-tasks. This membership aims to help guide the future of AI deployments at the edge.
Protect your applications from DDoS attacks and other threats.
Provides web application and API protection with a next-generation WAF in blocking mode.
Fastly announced a collaboration with AWS and Tim Howard to discuss performance, resilience, and preparation for live streaming at the edge, drawing parallels with the FIFA World Cup. The event is a joint exploration of best practices for delivering high-quality live video content under pressure.
This article from Fastly discusses the infrastructure challenges faced by iGaming platforms, specifically highlighting the need for ultra-low latency in real-time betting. It explains how edge infrastructure aids these platforms in scaling securely and maintaining performance under pressure.
Fastly announced that its Compute platform, which uses a WebAssembly (Wasm)-based architecture, is not vulnerable to the recently identified 'Copy Fail' (CVE-2026-31431) security flaw. This vulnerability primarily affects shared Linux environments. Fastly highlights that its architectural approach inherently avoids the risks associated with this specific security issue.
Fastly has introduced new Compliance Audit Reports to help customers streamline their audit processes. These reports provide evidence for various compliance standards including SOC2, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI, and ISO 27001, making it easier for customers to demonstrate adherence to regulations.
Fastly's privacy-preserving edge infrastructure is supporting Google Private AI Compute. This integration enables secure and private access to Google's Gemini models. The collaboration focuses on leveraging Fastly's edge capabilities for AI computations.
Fastly's Threat Insights Report indicates that 49% of all web traffic consists of bots, with 99% of these bots being unwanted. The report suggests that organizations need to evolve their bot strategy to manage security and costs more effectively. The article provides insights into the nature of bot traffic on the web.
Fastly discusses Media over QUIC (MoQ) as a technology aiming to deliver real-time media with both low latency and scalability. The article posits that MoQ could achieve this by replacing traditional streaming segments with a more efficient delivery model. This technical development is presented as a potential solution to a long-standing challenge in streaming.
Fastly announced the redesign of its Control Panel homepage. The update provides users with a centralized, dynamic view to access actionable insights on performance, security, account health, and spend alerts.
