Fastly
Fastly provides an edge cloud platform that helps businesses deliver, secure, and deploy applications and AI workloads.
- Based in
- San Francisco, United States
- Founded
- 2011
- Ownership
- Public, FSLY
- Listed
- FSLY on Nasdaq
- Revenue
- $624.0m (FY2025), from the annual report
About Fastly
Fastly provides an edge cloud platform that helps businesses deliver, secure, and deploy applications and AI workloads. The company sells content delivery, security, edge computing, and observability products. It serves industries such as high tech, retail and eCommerce, financial services, media and entertainment, gaming, and online education. Its platform is built on a global network with many points of presence and high capacity. Fastly offers professional services, a managed CDN, managed security, and live event support. The company says its network enables faster time to first byte and instant purge capabilities. It also provides tools for AI traffic governance, bot management, and API security.
Products
- CDNA content delivery network that speeds up and scales global delivery of websites and applications.
- Image OptimizerA service that optimises images for faster delivery.
- Object StorageA storage service for objects, likely integrated with the edge platform.
- Live StreamingA product for delivering live video streams at scale.
- Next-Gen WAFA web application firewall that protects apps and APIs from threats.
- Bot ManagementA tool to detect and control bot traffic, including AI crawlers.
Ownership and deals
- Fastly acquired DomainrReport on Fastly buying Domainr (opens in a new tab)
- Fastly acquired Signal Sciences for $775mReport on Fastly buying Signal Sciences (opens in a new tab)
Acquisitions come from SecurityWeek's monthly M&A round-ups from 2021 onwards, from Cybersecurity Ventures' quarterly M&A reports for 2020, and a few from Wikipedia lists. Funding rounds from 2022 onwards come from Return on Security's weekly Security, Funded newsletter. These are dated to the month. A few deals added from the news are dated to the day. Smaller deals may be missing. Amounts are in US dollars.