Fastly, Inc. (NYSE: FSLY), a leader in global edge cloud platforms, announced today it was named a 2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for Cloud Web Application and API Protection (WAAP). Fastly received overall high ratings and is the only vendor to earn this recognition for seven consecutive years.

The Gartner Peer Insights platform contains user posts, reviews, ratings, surveys, polls and other similar user-generated types of content and programs derived from Gartner Peer Insights content.

According to verified reviews from enterprise IT professionals who have implemented and integrated Fastly’s Web Application Firewall (WAF), Fastly received one of the highest overall ratings of 4.8 out of 5 stars (based on 130 reviews) as of 31 July 2025.

Select Gartner^Ⓡ Peer Insights™ reviews that contributed to Fastly’s recognition include:

“Fastly has been a long-term, reliable partner to our firm and has been evolving the product to solve our emerging challenges. Working with the Fastly team has always been a pleasure and their technology offering is top shelf, making our teams more productive and providing capabilities for our systems that enable us to provide a seamless experience to our customers.” – Technology Director, Media Industry

“The Fastly team is committed to the delivery of excellent products and services. They address real-world challenges in a simplified but sophisticated fashion –- offering easy to use platforms to tackle some of the most complex security challenges. The Fastly sales and support teams bring to the table experts who take time to understand each customers’ unique set of challenges and find fast and robust solutions to help them through any situation encountered. Fastly exemplifies the true definition of being a technology partner you can count on.” – Senior Director, Security, Software Industry

“We have a strong relationship with the Fastly team that helped to set up and enhance our defenses. Our ecomm platform is heavily targeted by bots and using the Next-Gen WAF gives us ways to react quickly and protect the back end services.” – Director of Software Engineering, Retail Industry

“We continue to be inspired by the positive feedback our customers share about how effectively Fastly’s Next-Gen WAF advances their security initiatives,” said Kim Ogletree, Chief Customer Officer at Fastly. “Earning this recognition from our customers for seven consecutive years is an honor as we continue innovating our WAAP portfolio, including DDoS and large-scale attack mitigation, (AI) Bot Management, API security and protection, account takeover prevention using unique deception techniques within our Next-Gen WAF, and shared threat intelligence through our Network Learning Exchange.”

Gartner defines cloud web application and API protection (WAAP) as “a category of security solutions designed to protect web applications and APIs from different types of attacks, irrespective of the hosting location. Typically delivered as a service, cloud WAAP is a consolidation of multiple capabilities offered as a series of security modules and designed to protect against a broad range of runtime attacks. Core capabilities are web application firewalls (WAFs), distributed denial of service (DDoS) mitigation, protection against advanced API attacks and automated (bot) traffic management. A cloud WAAP solution must incorporate all four core capabilities within the same offering.”

In the cloud WAAP market, Gartner^Ⓡ Peer Insights™ published 1,238 reviews and ratings in the 18-month period ending July 31, 2025. Vendors’ User Interest and Adoption scores incorporate three factors, each given one-third weight: review volume, user willingness to recommend, and review market coverage across industry, company size, and deployment region. A vendor must meet or exceed the market average User Interest and Adoption Score to qualify for the right-hand quadrants, and vendors placed in the upper-right quadrant are recognized with the Customer’s Choice distinction. Vendors’ Overall Experience is a composite score that incorporates the average Overall Rating and two sub-rating averages: “Capabilities” and “Support/Delivery.’’

To learn more about the Fastly Next-Gen WAF solution and other security offerings within Fastly’s Edge Cloud Platform, visit: https://learn.fastly.com/gartner-peer-insights-voice-of-customer-waap.

Gartner Disclaimer

Gartner, Voice of the Customer for Cloud Web Application and API Protection, By Peer Contributors, 30 September 2025.

Gartner is a registered trademark and service mark, and PEER INSIGHTS is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally, and are used herein with permission. All rights reserved. Gartner Peer Insights content consists of the opinions of individual end users based on their own experiences with the vendors listed on the platform; it should not be construed as statements of fact, nor do they represent the views of Gartner or its affiliates. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in this content, nor makes any warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this content, about its accuracy or completeness, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Please note that this report was previously known as Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’: Web Application and API Protection in 2022, as Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’: Web Application Firewalls in 2021, and as Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’: Web Application Firewalls in 2019-20. In 2019 and 2020, we were recognized as Signal Sciences. Fastly acquired Signal Sciences in 2020.

About Fastly, Inc.

Fastly’s powerful and programmable edge cloud platform helps the world’s top brands deliver online experiences that are fast, safe, and engaging through edge compute, delivery, security, and observability offerings that improve site performance, enhance security, and empower innovation at global scale. Compared to other providers, Fastly’s powerful, high-performance, and modern platform architecture empowers developers to deliver secure websites and apps with rapid time-to-market and demonstrated, industry-leading cost savings. Organizations around the world trust Fastly to help them upgrade the internet experience, including Reddit, Neiman Marcus, Universal Music Group, and SeatGeek.

Learn more about Fastly at https://www.fastly.com, and follow us @fastly.

Source: Fastly, Inc.

View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251001089549/en/