Founded in 2011, Fastly has grown into a mature CDN provider. Fastly offers a range of services including streaming media delivery and private CDN but Fastly is best known for being a 'real-time CDN', meaning changes happen instantly and the platform can deliver 'uncacheable' content well.
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Fastly Products
On April 18 2017, Fastly unveiled three new products: Web Application Firewall (WAF), Image Optimizer and Load Balancer. Read the press release.
View the table below for more insight into Fastly products.
Hover over/touch the product to view a short description.
| Product | ||
|---|---|---|
| Dynamic content deliveryNon-cacheable content delivery. User login, shopping cart ... | ||
| Small file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of small files (file size <1 MB) | ||
| Large file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of large files (file size >1 MB) | ||
| Live videoDelivery of live video. RTMP? Transcoding/transmuxing? | ||
| Video on demandDelivery of on demand video | Video on Demand | |
| Image OptimizationAutomatic image transformation/compression/optimization | Image Optimizer | |
| DNSAuthoritative DNS for customer domain | ||
| WAFWeb Application Firewall | Web application firewall | |
| Anti-DDoSDDoS attack protection. Specific product(s) for this. | DDoS Mitigation | |
| Private CDNDedicated edge resources & custom configs | Fastly Managed CDN | |
| Edge ComputeRun your code on CDN edge servers | Compute@Edge |
Fastly Network
Fastly has POPs in ~80 locations on 6 continents, with an exceptionally strong presence in Oceania (8 POPs).
Fastly network map
Click the country flag icon to navigate to a page showing all CDNs with POP(s) in that country
* = planned POPs
** = multiple POPs
| North America | 17 locations in 2 countries | ||
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United States | Ashburn** - Atlanta** - Chicago** - Dallas** - Los Angeles** - New York** - San Jose** - Seattle** - Boston - Columbus - Denver - Detroit - Honolulu - Houston - Jacksonville - Kansas City - Miami - Minneapolis - Phoenix - Portland - St. Louis | |
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Canada | Calgary - Montreal - Toronto - Vancouver | |
| Latin America | 7 locations in 5 countries | ||
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Argentina | Buenos Aires | |
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Brazil | São Paulo** - Curitiba - Fortaleza - Rio de Janeiro | |
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Chile | Santiago | |
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Colombia | Bogotá | |
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Peru | Lima | |
| Europe | 18 locations in 15 countries | ||
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Austria | Vienna | |
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Belgium | Brussels | |
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Bulgaria | Sofia | |
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Germany | Frankfurt** - Munich | |
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Denmark | Copenhagen | |
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Spain | Madrid | |
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France | Marseille - Paris | |
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Finland | Helsinki | |
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United Kingdom | London** - Manchester | |
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Ireland | Dublin | |
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Italy | Milan - Palermo - Rome | |
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Netherlands | Amsterdam | |
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Norway | Oslo | |
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Portugal | Lisbon | |
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Sweden | Stockholm | |
| Russia & CIS | No edge servers | ||
| Asia excl. China | 12 locations in 8 countries | ||
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Hong Kong | Hong Kong | |
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India | Chennai - Hyderabad - Kolkata - Mumbai - New Delhi | |
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Japan | Tokyo** - Osaka | |
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South Korea | Seoul | |
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Malaysia | Kuala Lumpur | |
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Philippines | Manila | |
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Singapore | Singapore | |
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Thailand | Bangkok | |
| China | No edge servers | ||
| Oceania | 8 locations in 2 countries | ||
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Australia | Adelaide - Brisbane - Melbourne - Perth - Sydney | |
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New Zealand | Auckland - Christchurch - Wellington | |
| Middle East | 2 locations in 1 country | ||
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United Arab Emirates | Dubai - Fujairah | |
| Africa | 3 locations in 2 countries | ||
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Ghana | Accra | |
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Kenya | Nairobi* | |
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South Africa | Johannesburg - Cape Town | |
Fastly Pricing
Fastly doesn't require long-term contracts and their pricing is simple and easy to understand, with no hidden costs. You can test up to $50 of traffic for free, no commitment required. Billing is based on number of requests and data transfer and if applicable your TLS/SSL plan. Signup is completely self-service and there is no need to talk to a sales representative. You can get discounted rates based on a commit in an annual contract.
Fastly pricing
| Pricing & contract duration | ||
|---|---|---|
| Minimum contract term | None | |
| Minimum monthly costs | $50 | |
| Requests costsCustomers pay for client to CDN requests | $0.0075 - $0.016 per 10k requests | |
| Ingress costsCustomers pay for origin-to-CDN bytes transferred | None | |
| NA/EU traffic (low volume) | $0.12 per GB | |
| APAC traffic (low volume) | $0.19 per GB | |
| LATAM traffic (low volume) | $0.28 per GB | |
Fastly Features
Features Fastly is proud of are instant configuration updates, instant purging, the ability to cache dynamic content, real-time log streaming and analytics, and traffic spike protection. Customers have the flexibility to customize their Varnish configurations at will.
View the tables below for more insight into the features Fastly supports.
Hover over/touch the feature name to view a short description.
| Web acceleration | ||
|---|---|---|
| Instant setupSign up, configure, start testing. | ||
| Change propagation delayHow fast do config changes propagate to all POPs? | Instant! | |
Apex/root domain OK
No performance degradation when using http(s)://domain.com
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Global anycast IPs are available | |
| HTTP/2 | ||
| HTTP/3 | Enabling HTTP/3 | |
| WebSockets
Technology for bidirectional communication in client-server apps
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Limited availability | |
| IPv6Do the edge servers have IPv6? | IPv6 at Fastly | |
| Compression
Reduce file size for faster delivery
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Resend from origin, or compress on edge. Brotli! | |
| Origin pull - protocolHTTP only or HTTPS possible too? | HTTP and HTTPS | |
| Origin pull - Host headerUse client > edge value? Set specific value? | Can be different from origin host | |
| Origin Shield
One POP pulls from origin, other POPs pull from the shield POP
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Also available as separate product (Media Shield) | |
| Waiting RoomDuring peak traffic, route users to a virtual waiting room | Stateful waiting room with Compute@Edge | |
| Push / uploadStore your content directly on CDN, no customer origin | ||
| Cache control - CDN caching | Full and granular control | |
| Cache control - client caching | Full and granular control | |
| Serve Stale
CDN serves cached but expired content in case origin is in trouble
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Cache-Control extensions support | |
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Purge
Invalidate or delete cached objects on CDN
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Instant! | |
| Purge - capabilities | Purge all and by key | |
| Analytics | Real-time! | |
| Log files | Real-time streaming of logs to your server | |
| API | Purge, analytics, configuration | |
| HTTPS & Content Protection | ||
|---|---|---|
| CDN domain HTTPSUse the CDN's domain, like cloudfront.net | Free for first 5 domains, $20 per additional domain | |
| Customer domain HTTPSYour domain in the CDN's certificate | $100/m per FQDN, $275/m for wildcard domain | |
| Customer cert HTTPSYour certificate on the CDN | EV cert possible. | |
| Token authentication | Enabling URL token validation | |
| Geo blocking | ||
| Hotlink protectionThird parties cannot deeplink to your content | Creating and using Edge Dictionaries | |
| Basic authenticationUser logs in on the CDN to get content | Authenticating before returning a request | |
| IP white/blacklisting | About Edge ACLs | |
Fastly Support
Fastly provides a range of support options and paid plans. Free to all is their extensive public documentation and API references as well as the community forum and email support. Customers can pay to upgrade the support level, e.g. to get phone and Slack support, faster responses, outside business hours and dedicated account management.
| Documentation | Yes, public | |
| Human support | Email support during business hours is free. Pay extra if you need more/better. Two paid plans available | |
| Status Page | Fastly status page |
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