Fastly

Fastly Instant Purge clears cached content globally in a mean time of approximately 150 milliseconds — compared to hours for most CDN providers. For eCommerce platforms with frequently changing product availability and pricing, or media sites with breaking news, the ability to immediately invalidate stale cache eliminates the tradeoff between caching duration and content freshness. Customers like KAYAK, Etsy, and Shopify rely on Instant Purge to serve real-time catalog and pricing data through the CDN.

Fastly ghost-serve keeps websites operational even when the origin server is down — serving stale cached content to users for days if needed, rather than showing error pages. For eCommerce and media sites where downtime directly translates to lost revenue, this failover capability prevents origin outages from becoming user-visible outages. Combined with Instant Purge (which ensures content can be updated immediately when the origin recovers), ghost-serve provides both resilience and content control.

Compute@Edge is Fastly edge compute platform — enabling developers to run custom code at the network edge rather than at origin servers. This allows logic like authentication, A/B testing, request routing, and content personalization to execute as close to the user as possible, reducing latency and origin load. There is no processing queue — changes deploy globally within seconds. For developers wanting programmable control over request handling without origin round-trips, Compute@Edge provides a highly flexible execution environment.

Fastly serves eCommerce (Boots UK, Etsy, KAYAK, Nordstrom Rack, Wayfair, Stripe), Media and Digital Publishing (Rolling Stone/Wenner Media), Online Video and Streaming (fuboTV), SaaS, Travel and Hospitality, and Financial Services. Their customer portfolio demonstrates strength in high-traffic, content-intensive applications where edge performance directly impacts user engagement and revenue.

Fastly maintains PCI DSS compliance and enterprise-grade privacy and security certifications. Their TLS termination at the edge is part of their security architecture, and their infrastructure is designed for the compliance requirements of enterprise financial services, eCommerce, and media customers.

Fastly was built by technologists for technologists — highly customizable, immediately deployable, with no processing queue for configuration changes. Their Instant Purge capability (150ms global) is significantly faster than most CDN providers. They provide real-time streaming logs rather than delayed analytics. Compute@Edge offers programmable logic execution at the edge. Their 95%+ customer satisfaction score demonstrates the developer-friendly experience that differentiates them from legacy CDN providers.

No. Your contract is directly with Fastly. Fibi is compensated by a commission from Fastly from their existing sales budget. Our advisory helps you evaluate Fastly alongside other CDN and edge cloud providers for your specific application performance and security requirements.