Fastly Launches AI Firewall and AI Runtime Control to Secure and Scale AI
Fastly launched AI Runtime Control, AI Firewall, and new API Security capabilities that extend its edge cloud platform to govern AI access, protect AI applications from LLM-based attacks, and control how autonomous agents interact with enterprise APIs. The launch follows accelerating AI load on Fastly's network: machine-generated traffic crossed 50% of total traffic in July and August, and AI traffic grew 6.5 times faster than human traffic from January through May. The new capabilities are available now on Fastly's platform, which runs at 622 Tbps of global edge capacity and handles more than five trillion requests daily.
Key figures
- Daily requests
- more than five trillion (as of March 31, 2026)
- Ai traffic growth
- 6.5x faster than human traffic (January-May 2026)
- Edge network capacity
- 622 Tbps (as of June 30, 2026)
- Machine generated traffic share
- crossed 50% of network traffic (July-August 2026)
- Orgs exceeding ai budgets mckinsey
- 93%
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