Name: Fastly DDoS Protection
Rating: 4.9 (65 reviews)

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Product Information on Fastly DDoS Protection

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Fastly DDoS Protection?

Fastly DDoS Protection is a software designed to safeguard web applications and services from distributed denial-of-service attacks. The software offers real-time detection and mitigation of large-scale threats by analyzing traffic patterns and identifying abnormal spikes that signal potential attacks. It filters malicious requests before they reach the origin servers, helping to maintain service availability and performance. The software integrates with edge cloud infrastructure to distribute security functions closer to users, thereby reducing latency and enhancing response times. It includes features such as traffic monitoring, threat intelligence, customizable security rules, and automated incident response workflows. The software addresses the business problem of website downtime and degraded performance due to malicious network traffic, ensuring continuous access for legitimate users while minimizing the impact of volumetric and application-layer attacks.

Overall experience with Fastly DDoS Protection

Manager, Project Management

3B - 10B USD, Transportation

FAVORABLE

“Fastly protects you IT active for DDoS attacks”

5.0

Nov 21, 2025

The account and support really helped to setup and migrate our website and apis. They also gave great security recommendations

Engineering Manager

1B - 3B USD, Consumer Goods

CRITICAL

“Product Improvement Needed Despite User Affinity for WAF”

3.0

Oct 9, 2024

WAF can be improved more. We faced problem while one of the DDOS attack happened in the past.

About Company

Company Description

Fastly is a company that specializes in developing an edge cloud platform. This platform is designed to enhance the effectiveness and strength of websites and applications. Notable users of this platform include social media, e-commerce, news media and gaming sites. Through their platform, Fastly aims to facilitate improved web and app performance.

Company Details

Company type

Public

Year Founded

2011

Head office location

San Francisco, United States

Number of employees

501 - 1000

Website

http://www.fastly.com

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Fastly DDoS Protection Likes & Dislikes

The flexibility to setup and the learning curve is to smooth to learn about Fastly

WAF side of things

The thing I like most about Fastly is the flexibility it provides without sacrificing speed. More specifically, the Fastly edge rate limiting can either by set up in a few clicks, or written into the VCL directly with custom logic for more advanced users and use cases.

It separates WAF and NGWAF so it is alittle bit difficult to find the security functionality

The support side was not great in the past

Fastly can have a learning curve, and making sure services are set up for streamlined updates and maintenance requires work.

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1B-10B USD

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Fastly protects you IT active for DDoS attacks

50M-1B USD

Software

Fastly's Edge Rate Limiting Helps Manage Traffic Spikes Efficiently and Reliably

Jun 3, 2025

Fastly is the fastest and most flexible CDN on the market. We were having issues with large traffic spikes taking down our origin, and turned to Fastly for edge rate limiting on custom dimensions to reliably deliver responses to all our customers.

Software Developer

Gov't/PS/Ed

Education

Excellent Support from TAM Team, Personalized and Informative Briefings

Jun 11, 2025

Wonderful support from Reps and the TAM team, the recurring briefings add a lot of useful information for us.

VP of Information Systems

Reliable Protection Without Oversight Keeps You Safe and Secure

May 28, 2025

mostly doesn't require attention and keeps us protected! It's a great thing to have in your back pocket.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Media

Fastly will help you build out the solution to meet your complex needs.

May 14, 2025

Great support and uptime. Their new features are built out to the actual user use cases rather than generic cases.