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Fastly & Google Cloud: Combining the best of cloud with the best of the edge
Today, expectations for digital experiences are at an all-time high; they must be fast, secure, and highly personalized. The challenge is enabling developers to deliver a modern digital experience while simultaneously providing scale, security, and performance. Together, Fastly and Google Cloud can solve these challenges to help you surpass your end-users’ expectations.
We combine the power of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) -- Google Cloud Storage (GCS), Google Compute Engine, and Google Big Query -- with the speed and flexibility of the Fastly edge cloud platform. This unique partnership allows developers to build, test, and deploy applications in a scalable, reliable cloud environment.
With Fastly and Google Cloud, empower your teams to meet rising customer expectations and focus on what matters most: your business and your users. This means concert goers can buy tickets the moment they go on sale, travelers can book flights seamlessly for their next adventure, sports fans can stream events in real time across devices, newsreaders can get the latest breaking headlines, and so much more. Here’s how we can help:
Achieve zero-downtime cloud migrations
Any amount of downtime can mean negative financial impact and overall disruption to your business. Maintain a seamless experience for your users as you modernize your infrastructure to GCP. Fastly’s Layer 7 Load Balancer can simplify migrations from other cloud providers or on-prem deployments by intelligently routing traffic between servers, allowing you to complete your migration with zero downtime. This also supports modern microservices architectures and containers within GCP environments.
Fastly CDN: Deliver fast, personalized experiences globally
Fastly’s fully configurable CDN enables you to change content quickly, even event-driven content. Easily adjust your configuration settings via an API and roll back changes as needed without having to reach out to Professional Services.
Fastly’s modern video CDN is designed to cache and rapidly deliver both frequently requested and long-tail, on-demand videos. With higher cache hit rates, we significantly reduce load on your origin while accelerating time to first frame (TTFF) globally.
Unified web application and API Security, anywhere
Traditional web application firewalls (WAF) rely on regular expression pattern-matching rules. They’re difficult to manage and require never-ending rules tuning to eliminate false positives that can block legitimate traffic. The Fastly Next-Gen WAF leverages a fundamentally different approach, developed by Signal Sciences, that effectively detects and blocks malicious traffic without rules tuning, leaving your AppSec teams to focus on bigger problems.
Bad bots can negatively impact your bottom line and customer experiences. Fastly’s next-gen WAF (formerly Signal Sciences) acts fast to identify and mitigate bad bot activity, protecting your applications and APIs against a variety of bot-driven malicious scenarios.
Deliver better performance at lower cost
Rising user expectations mean your business needs to perform faster to meet demands. Research indicates that 53% of people will leave a mobile page if it takes longer than 3 seconds to load (Google). Fastly’s edge cloud platform, with GCP, can accelerate your applications and speed content delivery. With 20 private network interconnects (PNIs) between Google Cloud and Fastly, we connect directly at the network backbone, bypassing the public internet and dramatically reducing latency. And you can consolidate web requests to GCS or Compute Engine with Fastly’s Origin Shield and Request Collapsing to further improve efficiency and reduce network egress costs.
Provide greater control with an event-driven, serverless architecture
Deliver the latest content to your users the moment updates are made. Create a more responsive and agile environment that empowers your developers with an event-driven and serverless architecture. Fastly’s Instant Purge allows you to update content within 150 milliseconds globally (mean purge time) -- or streamline updates with surrogate key purging. Google Cloud Functions can also be used to purge Fastly’s edge cloud platform instantly when a change is made in Google Cloud Storage.
Gain real-time insights with data streaming and analytics
Data-driven insights can help you quickly identify potential issues and continuously iterate your site to deliver greater experiences for your users. Stream your web and application traffic logs in real-time to see what’s happening with your traffic. Google Cloud’s BigQuery integration into Fastly’s edge cloud platform makes data processing fast, cost effective, and scalable. Combine data from other sources like GCS, Google Analytics, Google Ads data, or security and firewall logs; use Looker for visualization and analysis. Or, simply use Fastly real-time logs and Google Cloud Storage for your backup.
Delve in further:
- Why Fastly (video)
- The NY Times and why they rely on Fastly (video)
- Google Cloud OnAir: 3 Strategies for cloud migration (video)
- Logging at the edge with Fastly, Google Cloud Storage, and Big Query (video)
- How to analyze Fastly real-time streaming logs with BigQuery (GCP Blog)
Contact us:
For additional information on how you can benefit from Fastly and Google Cloud please contact us at partners@fastly.com