Fastly announced a unified notification drawer that consolidates observability alerts, service advisories and spend warnings into a single bell‑icon panel across the control‑panel UI. The new drawer shows only active alerts with key details and a one‑click link to the source, streamlining incident detection. The blog also outlines six essential alerts—traffic volume, bandwidth, 4xx errors, 5xx errors, DDoS attacks and spend thresholds—that engineering teams should configure for proactive edge monitoring. Correlating these signals accelerates root‑cause analysis and reduces mean time to detect and resolve incidents.
Fastly Object Storage has doubled its global footprint by adding five new regions—us-central-1, uk-east-1, eu-south-1, jp-central-1, and au-east-1—to its existing network. The expansion targets lower latency and egress‑free data delivery for developers building edge‑centric applications. Fastly also highlights regional redundancy,...
Fastly is rolling out private notifications for security‑related maintenance and incidents, delivered through an SSO‑protected status page and direct Slack alerts. The new system provides service‑specific, detailed updates that remain hidden from the public internet, mitigating information‑leak risks. Integration with...
Recent high‑profile cloud outages have exposed the risks of relying on a single CDN, prompting enterprises to adopt multi‑CDN architectures for resilience and performance. By distributing traffic across multiple providers, companies can automatically reroute around regional failures, maintain SLA compliance,...