Fastly —
Programmable Edge Cloud, Compute@Edge & Edge Security

Fastly is positioned for digital businesses whose web, app, or API performance is the product itself — and where the priority is sub-second global delivery, programmable edge logic, and security built into the same platform rather than bolted on. The strongest fit is publishers, ecommerce, SaaS, streaming media, online travel, and digital-experience brands running latency-sensitive traffic at global scale, with regulated or PCI-adjacent compliance posture, and a measurable business case for moving caching, security, and edge compute under one programmable platform rather than juggling separate CDN, WAF, bot, and origin-shielding vendors.

Fastly delivers a programmable edge cloud that combines content delivery, edge compute, image optimization, and a security suite — WAF, DDoS protection, bot management, API security — under one configurable control plane. The structural difference versus first-generation CDNs is that Fastly's network was built around instant configuration changes, real-time logging and observability, and customer-controlled programmability via VCL and Compute@Edge — so engineering teams can ship cache, routing, and edge-logic changes in seconds rather than ticketed support windows, and run logic at the edge for personalization, A/B testing, authentication, and request shaping without round-tripping to origin.

Compute@Edge is Fastly's serverless compute platform running customer code in a WebAssembly-based isolation model at edge points of presence. The fit is operating models running personalization, authentication, A/B testing, request shaping, rendering, edge APIs, or fraud-signal collection — workloads where the round-trip to origin or a centralized region is the latency bottleneck. The structural advantage versus traditional functions-as-a-service is the edge footprint plus startup characteristics designed for very low cold-start overhead, so even single-request handlers stay fast under burst traffic.

Fastly's security suite covers next-generation WAF with configurable detection across OWASP and business-logic rules, DDoS protection at the network and application layer, bot management for credential stuffing and scraping, and API security for protecting JSON and GraphQL endpoints. The structural fit is digital businesses that already terminate traffic on the Fastly edge — applying WAF, bot, and DDoS protection at the same edge avoids adding additional vendors and additional latency, and the security signals feed the same observability surface as cache and edge-compute logs.

Publishing, ecommerce, and streaming operating models share a common pattern — global audiences, peak traffic events, latency that directly affects engagement and revenue, and a need to ship configuration changes quickly during incidents or launches. Fastly's fit is the combination of instant-purge caching for fast content updates, image optimization for delivery efficiency, edge compute for personalization and paywalls, video acceleration for live and on-demand streaming, and security at the same edge — under one programmable platform rather than vendor sprawl across CDN, security, and edge logic.

No. Your service agreement is signed directly with Fastly and Fastly's standard enterprise customer terms apply. Fibi's role is to scope your edge-cloud, security, and edge-compute objective against Fastly and the most relevant alternatives in the CDN, edge, and edge-security market — so you see how Fastly's programmable-edge posture and security depth compare against legacy CDNs and bundled security-CDN suites before signing. Fibi's advisory work is provider-funded, so the comparison comes at no additional cost to your business.