ANALYST REPORT

2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ "Voice of the Customer" for Cloud Web Application and API Protection (WAAP)

Fastly has been recognized as a Customers' Choice in the 2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ "Voice of the Customer" for Cloud Web Application and API Protection (WAAP).

We're proud to be the only vendor to receive this distinction for seven consecutive years, in our opinion reflecting our unwavering commitment to protecting your web applications and APIs.

What do we feel makes Fastly stand out?

  • Superior detection: Our patented SmartParse technology identifies real threats with remarkable accuracy, reducing false positives and eliminating constant rule tuning.

  • Deployment flexibility: Whether in the cloud, on-premise, in containers, or at the edge, Fastly's Next-Gen WAF adapts to your environment, not the other way around.

  • Developer-friendly experience: With numerous integrations into DevOps and security toolchains, Fastly seamlessly fits into your existing workflows.


Read an excerpt from the 2025 Gartner Peer Insights™ "Voice of the Customer" for Web Application and API Protection and see how all WAF vendors compare based on customer experiences.

See what our customers are saying

"Fastly has been a long-term, reliable partner to our firm and has been evolving the product to solve our emerging challenges. Working with the Fastly team has always been a pleasure and their technology offering is top shelf, making our teams more productive and providing capabilities for our systems that enable us to provide a seamless experience to our customers."

- Technology Director, Media Industry

"The Fastly team is committed to the delivery of excellent products and services. They address real-world challenges in a simplified but sophisticated fashion –- offering easy to use platforms to tackle some of the most complex security challenges. The Fastly sales and support teams bring to the table experts who take time to understand each customers’ unique set of challenges and find fast and robust solutions to help them through any situation encountered. Fastly exemplifies the true definition of being a technology partner you can count on."

- Senior Director, Security, Software Industry

"We have a strong relationship with the Fastly team that helped to set up and enhance our defenses. Our ecomm platform is heavily targeted by bots and using the Next-Gen WAF gives us ways to react quickly and protect the back end services."

- Director of Software Engineering, Retail Industry

Gartner, Voice of the Customer for Cloud Web Application and API Protection, By Peer Contributors, 30 September 2025.

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