Q4 2024

Hi Fastly users + friends,

We're excited to announce significant feature launches and enhancements this quarter, designed to elevate user experience across our platform. Our latest releases address critical areas of security, observability, storage, and AI acceleration. Key updates include the general availability of DDoS Protection for robust security against application-level attacks, Log Explorer & Insights for enhanced observability, Object Storage for cost-effective large file management, and AI Accelerator for optimizing LLM API performance. These offerings reflect our commitment to providing cutting-edge solutions that address our customers' evolving needs. Let's explore how these new features can benefit your operations.

Table of Contents

• DDoS Protection GA


• Log Explorer & Insights GA


• Object Storage GA


• AI Accelerator GA

Security

DDoS Protection GA

Fastly DDoS Protection rapidly deploys and automatically protects against disruptive and distributed threats to maintain the performance and availability of your applications and APIs. From startups launching their first mobile app to the world’s largest e-commerce sites, every application and API on the internet is susceptible to DDoS attacks slowing their service, inflating cloud expenses, or, worse, taking them offline. With Fastly DDoS Protection, anyone can flip a switch and enable immediate protection. The solution leverages Fastly’s global capacity of over 350 Tbps to absorb massive network layer attacks while using proprietary, adaptive techniques to automatically block malicious traffic before it impacts you.

Observability

Log Explorer & Insights GA

Log Explorer & Insights has now transitioned from beta with significant improvements as part of our Observability Packages. This turnkey feature enables developers and operators to gain actionable insights from log data directly on the Fastly Platform, without complex data pipelines. The Insights dashboard provides visualizations for proactive trend identification, performance optimization, and issue troubleshooting. Log Explorer allows users to view, filter, and analyze individual logs within the Fastly console or API, eliminating the need for third-party data collectors. Currently available for all services except Compute (planned for Q1 2025), it stores data in the United States for up to 7 days.

Storage

Object Storage GA

Our new Object Storage solution, an S3-compatible large object storage with zero egress fees, is now generally available. It serves as a drop-in replacement for other storage vendors using the S3 API, allowing users to store and access large files with a familiar interface. Object Storage enables various use cases for media, gaming, ecommerce, AI, and IoT applications. This solution is particularly beneficial for CDN and Compute customers needing to store large objects at the edge or for using an Object Storage bucket as an origin.

AI

AI Accelerator GA

AI Accelerator, now generally available, is an easy-to-implement semantic caching solution for large language model (LLM) APIs used in generative AI applications. Compatible with OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, and Google Gemini, it utilizes a pass-through API requiring minimal code changes. The solution employs semantic caching, mapping queries to concepts as vectors and caching answers based on meaning. This approach can speed up AI workloads by 9x or more, addressing AI-related web slowdowns. AI Accelerator benefits both developers building applications with critical LLM API dependencies and platform teams looking to optimize performance and vendor costs.