Fastly - CDN Planet

Company

Founded in 2011, Fastly has grown into a mature CDN provider. Fastly offers a range of services including streaming media delivery and private CDN but Fastly is best known for being a 'real-time CDN', meaning changes happen instantly and the platform can deliver 'uncacheable' content well.
Fastly website

Products

On April 18 2017, Fastly unveiled three new products: Web Application Firewall (WAF), Image Optimizer and Load Balancer. Read the press release.

View the table below for more insight into Fastly products.
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Product
Dynamic content deliveryNon-cacheable content delivery. User login, shopping cart ...
Small file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of small files (file size <1 MB)
Large file deliveryStatic object delivery; caching of large files (file size >1 MB)
Live videoDelivery of live video. RTMP? Transcoding/transmuxing?
Video on demandDelivery of on demand video	Video on Demand
Image OptimizationAutomatic image transformation/compression/optimization	Image Optimizer
DNSAuthoritative DNS for customer domain
WAFWeb Application Firewall	Web application firewall
Anti-DDoSDDoS attack protection. Specific product(s) for this.	DDoS Mitigation
Private CDNDedicated edge resources & custom configs	Fastly Managed CDN
Edge ComputeRun your code on CDN edge servers	Compute@Edge

Network

Fastly has POPs in 35 locations on 6 continents, with an exceptionally strong presence in Oceania (6 POPs). In 2017, Fastly plans to launch new POPs in India (Chennai and Mumbai), Israel, US and Canada.
Fastly network map

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Locations marked with ^* are not active yet but on the CDN's roadmap.

Region	POP Locations	Cities
North America	17	Ashburn - Atlanta - Boston - Chicago - Columbus - Dallas - Denver - Houston - Jacksonville - Kansas City - Los Angeles - Miami - Minneapolis MN - New York - San Jose - Seattle - St. Louis Montreal - Toronto - Vancouver
Latin America	6	Buenos Aires Curitiba - Rio de Janeiro - São Paulo Santiago Bogotá
Europe	13	Vienna Frankfurt - Berlin^* Copenhagen Madrid Paris - Marseille^* Helsinki London - Manchester Dublin Milan Amsterdam Oslo Stockholm
Russia & CIS	0
Asia excl. China	7	Hong Kong Chennai - Mumbai - New Delhi - Hyderabad^* - Kolkota^* Osaka - Tokyo Singapore
China	0
Oceania	6	Brisbane - Melbourne - Perth - Sydney Auckland - Wellington
Middle-East	1	Dubai
Africa	2	Johannesburg - Cape Town

Pricing

Fastly doesn't require long-term contracts and their pricing is simple and easy to understand, with no hidden costs. You can test up to $50 of traffic for free, no commitment required. Billing is based on number of requests and data transfer and if applicable your TLS/SSL plan. Signup is completely self-service and there is no need to talk to a sales representative. You can get discounted rates based on a commit in an annual contract.
Fastly pricing

Pricing & contract duration
Minimum contract term	None
Minimum monthly costs	$50
Requests costsCustomers pay for client to CDN requests	$0.0075 - $0.016 per 10k requests
Ingress costsCustomers pay for origin-to-CDN bytes transferred	None
NA/EU traffic (low volume)	$0.12 per GB
APAC traffic (low volume)	$0.19 per GB
LATAM traffic (low volume)	$0.28 per GB

Features

Features Fastly is proud of are instant configuration updates, instant purging, the ability to cache dynamic content, real-time log streaming and analytics, and traffic spike protection. Customers have the flexibility to customize their Varnish configurations at will.

View the tables below for more insight into the features Fastly supports.
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Web acceleration
Instant setupSign up, configure, start testing.
Change propagation delayHow fast do config changes propagate to all POPs?	Instant!
Apex/root domain OK No performance degradation when using http(s)://domain.com	Global anycast IPs are available
HTTP/2
WebSockets	Limited availability
IPv6Do the edge servers have IPv6?	IPv6 at Fastly
Compression Reduce file size for faster delivery	Resend from origin, or compress on edge. Brotli!
Origin pull - protocolHTTP only or HTTPS possible too?	HTTP and HTTPS
Origin pull - Host headerUse client > edge value? Set specific value?	Can be different from origin host
Origin ShieldOne POP pulls from origin, other POPs pull from the shield POP	Also available as separate product (Media Shield)
Push / uploadStore your content directly on CDN, no customer origin
Cache control - CDN caching	Full and granular control
Cache control - client caching	Full and granular control
Serve Stale CDN serves cached but expired content in case origin is in trouble	Cache-Control extensions support
Purge Invalidate or delete cached objects on CDN	Instant!
Purge - capabilities	Purge all and by key
Analytics	Real-time!
Log files	Real-time streaming of logs to your server
API	Purge, analytics, configuration

HTTPS & Content Protection
CDN domain HTTPSUse the CDN's domain, like cloudfront.net	Free for first 5 domains, $20 per additional domain
Customer domain HTTPSYour domain in the CDN's certificate	$100/m per FQDN, $275/m for wildcard domain
Customer cert HTTPSYour certificate on the CDN	EV cert possible.
Token authentication	Enabling URL token validation
Geo blocking
Hotlink protectionThird parties cannot deeplink to your content	Creating and using Edge Dictionaries
Basic authenticationUser logs in on the CDN to get content	Authenticating before returning a request
IP white/blacklisting	About Edge ACLs

Support

Fastly provides a range of support options and paid plans. Free to all is their extensive public documentation and API references as well as the community forum and email support. Customers can pay to upgrade the support level, e.g. to get phone and Slack support, faster responses, outside business hours and dedicated account management.

Documentation	Yes, public
Human support	Email support during business hours is free. Pay extra if you need more/better. Two paid plans available

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