Build superior digital experiences with Fastly and AWS Cloud

Fastly's Edge Cloud Platform ensures seamless scalability, secure delivery, and optimal speed for your websites, applications, and services. Our modern network provides a competitive edge over legacy providers, resulting in reduced downtime, increased speed, enhanced security, and superior digital experiences, especially for applications built on AWS Cloud. Discover the transformative impact on performance and operational innovation when choosing Fastly over Akamai.

Explore Fastly's Advantage Over Akamai

Fastly is quantifiably better than other legacy platforms. Compare real-time content control, boosted performance, and modern application development with Akamai.

Why move to Fastly?

  • Architecture: Fastly is built for the modern internet with powerful POPs on one network for more caching and faster delivery.
  • Performance: Fastly easily integrates with AWS to enhance native cloud services to help doing more from the edge and less from your origin.
  • Real-Time Visibility: Gain granular visibility across the request path from AWS origin to edge, enabling real-time log streaming and unlimited edge data analysis, all without added latency.
  • Security: Minimize attack surface area through isolation technology, creating/destroying a sandbox in microseconds for each request our platform processes.
  • Multi CDN: Fastly and AWS CloudFront combine forces to deliver higher Quality of Experience, stronger resiliency, greater scale, and significantly improved performance. Learn more about using Multi CDN here.
  • Availability on the AWS Marketplace: Fastly is the only external CDN on the AWS Marketplace providing simplified billing and procurement for AWS customers. Find us here.

Learn more about how Fastly stacks up to Akamai here.

Migrating from Akamai Delivery to Fastly: Learn from our customers who made the move

Dunelm

Dunelm switches to Fastly for improved shopper experience across web and mobile storefronts.

Yelp

Yelp relies on Fastly edge cloud platform to provide delightful, secure and scalable experiences for millions of users.

Don’t just take our word for it. Here’s what Industry Analysts have to say

2024 Gartner® Peer Insights™ ‘Voice of the Customer’ for Cloud Web Application and API Protection

Fastly is the only vendor to be recognized as a Customers' Choice for six years in a row as of February 2024.

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Forrester Wave™: Edge Development Platforms, Q4 2023                                                   

Fastly named a Leader in Forrester’s Edge Development Platforms Wave report for its vision, innovation, roadmap, security features, and more.

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