Company: FSLY
Filing Date: 2025-05-07
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001517413-25-000111
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Company: Fastly, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-07
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 3
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 highly fragmented, competitive, and constantly evolving. With the introduction of new technologies and market entrants, we expect that the competitive environment in which we compete will remain intense going forward. Application and API security vendors like Akamai, Cloudflare, F5, and Thales (Imperva) offer products that compete with ours. We also compete with CDN providers, which now offer serverless edge compute functionality like Akamai (Linode) and Cloudflare, public cloud providers that have added CDN and WAF capabilities like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft (Azure), legacy CDNs, such as Akamai, point CDN players like Bunny CDN, CDNetworks, CDN77, and Qwilt, and traditional on-premise data center appliance vendors for load balancing, WAF, and/or DDoS like F5, Thales (Imperva), and Radware. Some of our competitors have made or may make acquisitions or may enter into partnerships or other strategic relationships that may provide more comprehensive offerings than they individually had offered. Such acquisitions or partnerships may help competitors achieve greater economies of scale than us. In addition, new entrants not currently considered to be competitors may enter the market through acquisitions, partnerships, or strategic relationships. We compete on the basis of a number of factors, including:

•our platform’s functionality, scalability, performance, ease of use, ease of integration and programmability, reliability, security availability, and cost effectiveness relative to that of our competitors’ products and services;

•our global network coverage and availability;

•our ability to support modern application development processes and utilize new and proprietary technologies to offer services and features previously not available in the marketplace;

•our ability to identify new markets, applications, and technologies;

•our ability to attract and retain customers;

•our brand, reputation, and trustworthiness;

•our credibility with developers;

•the quality of our customer support;

•our ability to recruit software engineers and sales and marketing personnel; 

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•our ability to protect our intellectual property; and

•our ability to identify opportunities for acquisitions and strategic relationships and successfully execute on them.

We face substantial competition from legacy CDNs, small business-focused CDNs, cloud providers, traditional data center, and appliance vendors. In addition, existing customers have transitioned or notified us of their intent to transition, and existing and potential customers may in the future transition, off of our platform, or may limit their use, because they pursue a “do-it-yourself” approach to develop