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Fastly DDoS Protection: Automatically Mitigate Disruptive and Distributed Attacks

Smarter, automatic mitigation

Fastly DDoS Protection provides a dynamic, proactive, and automatic solution for detecting, evaluating, and reacting to DDoS attacks without requiring manual intervention. This ensures that your website and mobile apps remain performant and available even during attacks, offering round-the-clock protection.

Enhance resiliency

By leveraging Fastly DDoS Protection, you can guarantee the performance and availability of your applications and APIs. This resiliency helps your organization maintain revenue generation and prevents outage-related impacts on your brand reputation. With automatic mitigation in place, you can focus on your business operations rather than worrying about attacks.

Zero Attack Fees

Fastly aligns its pricing model to the value you receive, billing based on legitimate traffic that your business wants to receive. With zero attack fees, you won't be charged for the attack spikes that Fastly DDoS Protection mitigates, resulting in cost savings for your organization while ensuring continuous protection.

Reduce Cloud Spend

By preventing attacks from reaching your origin servers, Fastly DDoS Protection helps reduce operational costs associated with cloud services. This proactive approach results in a more consistent and reduced cloud spend overall, allowing you to allocate resources efficiently and effectively.

Scalable network

Fastly's DDoS Protection leverages a powerful global network with over 350 Tbps capacity, automatically absorbing massive network layer attacks while dropping irrelevant non-HTTP/HTTPS traffic. This scalability ensures that your team can uphold stability and reliability with the click of a button, providing a robust defense mechanism against various attack sizes.

Versatile protection

Regardless of your architecture, Fastly DDoS Protection offers speedy and scalable defenses without the need for tuning. As a standalone solution, it effectively mitigates application DDoS attacks and seamlessly integrates with the edge cloud platform. The dynamic and proactive protection is easily deployable, allowing your team to focus on delivering high-performance applications.

Additional Features

Fastly DDoS Protection offers powerful and versatile protection that can be easily enabled by platform engineers, security teams, or anyone else in your organization. With features like dynamic detection, adaptive identification, near real-time mitigation, massive capacity, and smart billing, this solution ensures that your applications and APIs are safeguarded from a wide range of attacks.

Enhance Your Security Capabilities with Fastly Managed Security Service

Introduction

The Fastly Managed Security Service is designed to empower businesses by allowing Fastly to operate and maintain their security products. This service ensures the continuous monitoring and proactive mitigation of attacks for Next-Gen WAF customers. By leveraging Fastly's global team of security experts, businesses can focus on core competencies, strategic initiatives, and high-impact projects while keeping their applications and APIs fully protected.

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Enhancing API Security with GraphQL Inspection by Signal Sciences

Visibility and Protection for Your GraphQL APIs

The advancement in API development has revolutionized the way dynamic applications are created. Organizations are now looking for more efficient ways to accelerate release cycles, transforming the CI/CD pipeline. While REST and SOAP have been dominant in API development, GraphQL is gaining popularity for its speed and specificity. Fastly Next-Gen WAF, powered by Signal Sciences, offers advanced protection for applications, APIs, and microservices. With GraphQL Inspection, the coverage over APIs is expanded, accommodating various architectures and specifications.

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Fastly: Enhancing Digital Experiences with Modern Technology and Security Solutions

Fastly's Complete Portfolio

Fastly offers a diverse portfolio designed to ensure websites, applications, and services can seamlessly handle user demands. The focus is on performance, personalization, security, and scalability to support growth. The global range of products resolves complex technical challenges, allowing you to concentrate on growth and differentiation, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, flexibility, and observability of your apps and services.

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Unleash the Power of Fastly's Managed CDN for Enhanced Performance and Maximum Control

Enhanced Performance & Predictability

Fastly's Managed CDN (mCDN) offers an array of benefits to enhance performance and predictability for your network. By deploying Fastly's edge cloud hardware and software into your infrastructure at locations of your choosing, you can eliminate storage space constraints, reduce origin load, and improve mobile performance. The mCDN provides extended origin traffic predictability as your data is stored and maintained on dedicated servers, ensuring consistent and reliable delivery to your end users.

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Fastly: Optimizing Performance and Security on a Global Scale

Top Reasons to Choose Fastly Over Cloudflare

Fastly offers superior performance, configurability, reliability, added value, improved security posture, and superior support compared to Cloudflare. With a modern network built for efficiency and high capacity POPs, Fastly ensures faster Time to First Byte (TTFB), lower latency, and lower costs. Additionally, Fastly's custom configuration options allow for fine-tuning of CDN settings, instant purging of stale content, and resilience in network infrastructure. Fastly does not gate features and provides full platform power to all customers, along with 100% real-time streaming logs. Their Next-Gen WAF and Bot Management solutions enhance security through accurate threat detection and a precision-based tuning process. Moreover, Fastly delivers exceptional customer support with rapid response times and a high CSAT score, ensuring no billing surprises and a focus on customer satisfaction.

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