Significantly reduce your origin traffic
Media Shield
Fastly’s Media Shield optimizes multi-CDN deployments while reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) of video streaming.
Optimize multi-CDN deployments
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Better quality of experience
Reduce origin bandwidth and infrastructure demands while maintaining a high-quality user experience and eliminating disruptions at the origin caused by sudden increases in volume. Gain valuable insights and swiftly address network issues as they arise with real-time logs.
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Improved control and performance
Enhance performance and availability by having Media Shield serve as a central origin for multiple CDNs. Streamline your management process by channeling your content through a single CDN, while being more prepared for high-traffic events. Turn cache misses into hits, ensuring more content is served from cache.
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Cost reduction
Fastly Media Shield helps manage streaming video infrastructure costs by eliminating extra requests. It consolidates identical content requests into one, reducing infrastructure processing load and saving on egress costs. Origin shielding directs cache-misses to a designated Fastly POP, further cutting costs.
Features
Request collapsing
Fastly's request collapsing groups requests and fulfills them together when it receives the refreshed content from your origin.
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Origin shielding
Designate a Fastly point of presence (POP) to serve as a shield for your origin servers, resulting in increased cache hit ratios and protection for your origin from unexpected spikes in requests.
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Instant purge
Remove your cached content worldwide on demand, within milliseconds, when your dynamic or event-driven content changes.
