Get everything you need from a modern CDN — from effortless scale and built-in security to programmable control and full visibility.
Faster, more secure experiences on AWS — at the edge.
Fastly + Amazon Web Services
Fastly’s edge cloud platform sits in front of your AWS infrastructure to accelerate performance, strengthen security, and deliver real-time visibility. Fastly integrates seamlessly with AWS to reduce latency, cut egress costs, and give your teams full control — without sacrificing flexibility.
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AWS gets you to the cloud. Fastly gets you to your users.
AWS gives you the power to build and scale. Fastly brings it to the edge. We bridge the gap between your cloud origins and end users—accelerating delivery, blocking threats, and streaming real-time telemetry back into your environment. No matter where you are on your journey to the cloud, we’ve got your back.
Perform
Accelerate AWS-hosted applications with edge caching, image optimization, and TLS termination. Fastly is 32% faster than other CDNs – reducing latency and cutting AWS egress costs dramatically.
Protect
Defend AWS applications with Fastly’s Next-Gen WAF — trusted by 90% of customers in full blocking mode. Stop Layer 7 attacks, OWASP Top 10 threats, bot attacks, and API abuse at the edge, safeguarding your AWS environments without sacrificing performance.
Develop
Fastly’s fully API-driven platform integrates natively with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and AWS CodePipeline. Push real-time configuration changes to the global edge network in seconds — as part of every AWS deployment.
Observe
Stream edge logs instantly directly to Amazon S3, Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon CloudWatch. Get real-time visibility into traffic, performance, and security across your entire AWS stack — with no blind spots.
Integrate
Fastly integrates deeply across the AWS ecosystem—delivering content from S3, streaming logs to CloudWatch and Kinesis, and feeding threat intelligence into Security Hub. Manage it all through CodePipeline, CloudFormation, or Terraform, with PrivateLink keeping sensitive traffic off the public internet.
Save
Reduce your AWS egress bill by offloading traffic to Fastly's edge. Cache static and dynamic content closer to users — dramatically cutting the volume of requests hitting your AWS origins and lowering your total infrastructure spend.
One platform. Four pillars. Fully integrated with AWS.
Fastly’s edge cloud platform combines Network Services, Security, Compute, and Observability into one programmable, developer-friendly layer — sitting in front of your AWS infrastructure to deliver faster, safer, and more observable digital experiences.
Deliver: Offload your AWS origins
Cache static and dynamic content at the edge to reduce EC2, S3, and ELB load — and cut AWS egress costs significantly.
Deploy: Run logic at the edge
Execute authentication, personalization, and routing at the Fastly edge — reducing Lambda invocations and round trips to your AWS origins.
Observe: See your entire AWS stack
Stream real-time Fastly logs to Amazon S3, Kinesis, and CloudWatch — giving your teams a unified view from the edge to your AWS origins.
Secure: Protect apps across all of AWS
Deploy Fastly’s Next-Gen WAF across EC2, Lambda, ECS, and EKS from one control plane — with AWS Security Hub and CloudTrail integration.
"When our Fastly renewal came up, consolidating procurement through the AWS Marketplace was a no-brainer—it streamlined billing and simplified operations significantly. AWS has been our cloud provider from day one, and pairing AWS compute power with Fastly's edge delivery and Next-Gen WAF has always been a perfect match. They're two distinct, powerful platforms that integrate seamlessly to drive our infrastructure forward."
Jan Haderka
CISO & CTO
"Here at GIPHY, Fastly is always part of the conversation when we plan new features. Before we build, we look at what Fastly can offer: more often than not, it's exactly what we need. Fastly's exceptional customer support makes it easy to explore possibilities and move fast with confidence."
Harold Hunt
Head of AI and Infrastructure
"Fastly Bot Management significantly reduced our unwanted bot traffic. The rule building, rapid signal visualization, and behavioral analysis all justified the investment."
Randy Naraine
Cybersecurity Architect
Fastly’s Next-Gen WAF seamlessly integrated natively across Blackpeppers/AWS environments like Amazon EC2 and Lambda. The integration provides superior protection against account takeovers and reduced complexity for teams operating on AWS.
Deliver More. Spend less. Offload your AWS origins.
Fastly Networks Services go far beyond traditional CDN. When deployed in front of your AWS infrastructure, Fastly caches both static and dynamic content at the edge — dramatically reducing the number of requests reaching your EC2, S3, and ELB origins, cutting egress costs, and improving performance for users worldwide.
Fastly is:
AWS Lambda Ready
Amazon Linux Ready
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Security Software Competency
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Fastly & AWS:
What is Fastly's AWS Partnership?
Fastly and AWS have a technology partnership that allows organizations to use Fastly's edge cloud platform alongside their existing AWS infrastructure. Fastly is available in the AWS Marketplace, enabling simplified procurement and consolidated billing. Organizations can deploy Fastly as the edge and delivery layer in front of AWS-hosted origins — including EC2, S3, ALB, and API Gateway — and integrate it seamlessly into AWS-native DevOps and CI/CD workflows.
How Does Fastly Work as a CDN for AWS?
Fastly sits in front of your AWS origin infrastructure, acting as a high-performance caching and delivery layer between end users and your AWS-hosted applications. Requests hit Fastly's global edge network first — cache hits are served instantly, while cache misses are fetched from AWS and cached for future requests. This means:
Dramatically reduced origin load on AWS compute resources
Better handling of traffic spikes without over-relying on AWS auto-scaling
32% faster Time to First Byte (TTFB) compared to other CDNs — and 43% faster than Akamai
Is Fastly's WAF the Same as AWS WAF?
These are fundamentally different tools. AWS WAF is tightly coupled to AWS services, while Fastly's Next-Gen WAF is environment-agnostic — deployable across cloud, on-premise, containers, and edge locations. The biggest differentiator: Fastly's WAF is engineered to minimize false positives, reducing the operational burden of constant rule tuning that teams often experience with AWS WAF. It also integrates cleanly into existing security toolchains, regardless of where your workloads run.
Does Fastly Provide DDoS Protection for AWS Environments?
Yes. Fastly provides a strong layer of DDoS protection in front of your AWS infrastructure:
Absorbs volumetric attacks at the edge — before they ever reach your AWS origin
Masks your AWS origin IPs, reducing your direct attack surface
Layer 7 protection via Fastly's Next-Gen WAF detects and blocks application-layer attacks
Rate limiting and traffic shaping throttle abusive traffic upstream of AWS
Real-time visibility into traffic anomalies as they happen
While AWS Shield provides native protection within AWS, Fastly mitigates threats further upstream — reducing the blast radius on your infrastructure before attacks can impact performance or availability.
Procure Fastly directly through AWS Marketplace
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