Fastly

Category: Cloud Hosting

Company: Fastly Inc.

Fastly's edge cloud platform delivers faster, safer, and more scalable sites and apps to customers. Elevate your edge CDN, video delivery, security, and more.

Founded: 2011

Target Market: General

Industries: Media & Entertainment, Retail & E-commerce, Financial Services & Banking, Technology & Software, Gaming, Travel & Hospitality

Key Features

Website: https://www.fastly.com

Frequently asked questions

What is Fastly?

Fastly's edge cloud platform delivers faster, safer, and more scalable sites and apps to customers. Elevate your edge CDN, video delivery, security, and more.

What is Fastly known for?

Fastly is best known for Recognized for its high-performance edge cloud platform that accelerates content delivery and application performance, Offers robust application security solutions that deliver significant ROI and lower operational costs and Distinguished by its ability to provide real-time control and flexibility for developers managing complex web applications. Its strongest capability coverage is in Distributed Infrastructure and CDN and Managed Security and Backup.

Who is Fastly for?

Fastly is used by teams across Media & Entertainment, Retail & E-commerce, Financial Services & Banking and Technology & Software.

Who makes Fastly?

Fastly is owned and operated by Fastly Inc. and was founded in 2011. See the company profile for leadership, milestones, and acquisitions.

How is Fastly evaluated?

Fastly is assessed across four dimensions — Innovation Index (30%), Organizational Strength (20%), Customer Mix (20%), and Vision Index (30%) — using documented evidence that is refreshed monthly. See the methodology page for the full scoring rules.

What are alternatives to Fastly?

The alternatives page lists sibling platforms in the Cloud Hosting category alongside Fastly, each with a full profile and side-by-side capability comparison so you can weigh the trade-offs for your use case.