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Software · San Francisco, California · Est. 2011
CDNEdge CloudSecurityDeveloper Tools↗ Website
$1.5B
Valuation
$620M
Revenue
1k+
Employees
2011
Founded

Fastly is an edge cloud platform that provides CDN, DDoS protection, web application firewall, and serverless computing services at the network edge. Serving over 3,000 enterprise customers including Stripe, Shopify, and GitHub, Fastly processes more than 145 terabits per second of traffic through its global network of 90+ points of presence.

Recent Press
5 items
Press Release·2026-02-12
Fastly Reports Record Full-Year 2025 Revenue of $624M, Up 15%, First Non-GAAP Profitable Year
Fastly achieved record full-year 2025 revenue of $624 million (up 15%) and delivered its first-ever non-GAAP profitable fiscal year with $19.7 million in net profit, while Q4 revenue surged 23% to $172.6 million with 61.4% gross margin.
Press Release·2026-02-12
Fastly Net Retention Rate Improves to 110% in Q4 2025 as AI Workloads Accelerate
Fastly's last-12-month net retention rate climbed to 110% in Q4 2025, up from 106% in Q3, as AI inference, edge caching, and security workloads drove increased customer consumption across the edge cloud platform.
Press Release·2026-02-12
Fastly Guides 2026 Revenue of $700M-$720M, Up 14% as AI Becomes Key Tailwind
Fastly issued 2026 revenue guidance of $700-720 million, representing 14% growth at the midpoint, with management citing AI workloads including large dataset storage, edge inference, and AI bot mitigation as accelerating revenue drivers.
Product Launch·2025-11-15
Fastly Security Revenue Surges 32% in 2025, API Inventory Product Launched
Fastly's security segment revenue grew 32% year-over-year in 2025 while the company launched API Inventory, enabling customers to catalog and manage APIs to quickly identify security gaps, as enterprise API security demand accelerated.
Product Launch·2025-07-15
Fastly Launches AI Accelerator with Semantic Caching to Reduce GPU Round-Trips at the Edge
Fastly introduced its AI Accelerator product suite in mid-2025, featuring semantic caching that stores the intent and meaning of AI queries at the edge to reduce expensive and high-latency round-trips to centralized GPU clusters for AI workloads.
Company History
9 milestones
Artur Bergman founded Fastly in 2011 with the vision of building a real-time CDN that allowed developers to modify caching behavior instantly without waiting hours for propagation delays common to legacy CDN providers.

Fastly Organization Structure & Team

Org Chart
1,100 employees · Click a leader to explore their team
1,360 across 12 departments
Chief Executive Officer
Todd Nightingale
Ron Kisling — Departments
· 1360 people across 12 depts

Fastly Financials, Revenue & Market Share

Annual Revenue
$620M
+8% vs prior year
YoY Growth
+8%
From $354M to $620M
Revenue / Employee
$564K
Annual revenue per full-time employee
Revenue Growth
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
$354M
$432M
$528M
$579M
$620M
Market Share
Global CDN & Edge Cloud Market
4%
share
Fastly
4%
Cloudflare
28%
Akamai
30%
AWS CloudFront
22%
Azure CDN
10%
$25B
TAM
$8B
SAM
$900M
SOM
Revenue Streams
Network Services (CDN)78%
Security Products17%
Compute@Edge5%
Business Units
Network Services78%
Core CDN and traffic delivery products serving 3,000+ enterprise customers across media, e-commerce, and technology verticals
Security Products17%
Next-Gen WAF, DDoS, and bot management products from the Signal Sciences acquisition driving security revenue growth
Edge Compute5%
Compute@Edge serverless platform for developer workloads, a strategic growth area for Fastly's next generation of enterprise customers

Fastly Internal Tools & Processes

Internal Tools
12 departments
Engineering420 people · 3 roles
Standards & Certifications
10 standards
Compliance frameworks, security audits, and quality certifications this company maintains.
Security
SOC 2 Type II
Certified
Fastly maintains SOC 2 Type II certification across its edge cloud platform, providing enterprise customers with independent assurance that security, availability, and confidentiality controls meet the trust service criteria for CDN, WAF, and compute services.
Security
ISO 27001
Certified
Fastly holds ISO 27001 certification for its information security management system, covering the global edge network infrastructure that processes enterprise customer traffic across 90+ points of presence.
Security
PCI DSS Level 1
Certified
Fastly is PCI DSS Level 1 certified as a service provider, enabling e-commerce customers like Shopify to route payment page traffic through Fastly CDN and WAF while maintaining their own PCI compliance obligations.
Privacy
GDPR
Compliant
Fastly is GDPR compliant with data processing agreements, EU-based edge nodes for data residency, and privacy controls that enable European enterprise customers to route user traffic through Fastly without violating EU data transfer regulations.
Privacy
HIPAA
Compliant
Fastly supports HIPAA-eligible workloads for healthcare customers by signing Business Associate Agreements and providing audit logging, access controls, and encryption for protected health information transmitted through the Fastly edge network.
Security
FedRAMP Moderate
Certified
Fastly holds FedRAMP Moderate authorization, enabling U.S. federal agencies to use Fastly CDN and edge services for government websites and applications requiring FedRAMP-compliant content delivery infrastructure.
Security
CSA STAR Level 2
Certified
Fastly maintains CSA STAR Level 2 certification for its cloud security posture, demonstrating third-party validated security controls for the edge cloud platform that enterprise security teams require before routing sensitive API traffic through Fastly.
Security
ISO 27017
Certified
Fastly is ISO 27017 certified for cloud service information security controls, providing enterprise customers with assurance that Fastly's shared responsibility model for edge infrastructure meets internationally recognized cloud security standards.
Privacy
CCPA
Compliant
Fastly is CCPA compliant, supporting California-resident data rights by providing data deletion, opt-out, and privacy request workflows for California-based users whose traffic is processed through Fastly's edge network on behalf of enterprise customers.
Security
FIPS 140-2
Certified
Fastly uses FIPS 140-2 validated cryptographic modules for TLS encryption across its edge network, meeting the federal cryptography standards required by U.S. government agencies that route sensitive workloads through Fastly CDN under FedRAMP authorization.

Fastly Interview Preparation

Interview Prep
Role-specific interview questions and keywords. Select a department, then click any role to prepare.
Engineering· 3 roles

Fastly Products & Competitors

Product Suite
5 products · select one to explore
Software
Security
Fastly Next-Gen WAF
Advanced application security without the false positives

Fastly Next-Gen WAF (acquired from Signal Sciences) is a web application firewall and API security solution that uses anomaly detection and behavioral signals to block attacks without the high false positive rates of traditional rule-based WAFs. It protects web applications and APIs against OWASP Top 10 threats, credential stuffing, and account takeover attacks.

Use Cases
API Security & Bot Blocking for E-Commerce Checkout FlowsCredential Stuffing Prevention for Financial Services Login PagesZero False-Positive WAF for Developer Teams Running CI/CD Pipelines
Fastly Next-Gen WAF
Key Customers
DD
DoorDash
YE
Yelp
VZ
Verizon Media
Competitive Intelligence
VSCloudflare WAF
THEM

Cloudflare WAF is a cloud-based web application firewall that filters malicious HTTP traffic using managed rulesets, custom rules, and machine learning-based anomaly detection for web application protection.

EDGE

Signal Sciences behavioral analysis approach produces far fewer false positives than signature-based WAFs

VSImperva
THEM

Imperva is a cybersecurity company providing web application firewall, DDoS protection, data security, and API security solutions for enterprises protecting cloud applications and on-premises databases.

EDGE

Native integration with Fastly CDN allows WAF decisions at the edge without additional latency hops

VSAWS WAF
THEM

AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) is Amazon's managed firewall that protects web applications from common exploits like SQL injection and XSS by filtering HTTP traffic using customizable rules.

EDGE

Developer-friendly deployment in minutes vs. complex AWS WAF rule configuration

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