Case Study: BloomNation halts abusive traffic and improves site performance with Fastly Next-Gen WAF

BloomNation With Signal Sciences rate limiting features, BloomNation easily identifies malicious traffic and stops it from hitting their servers while improving customer experience

BloomNation, an online flower delivery retailer, faced a flood of abusive traffic including DDoS and credential stuffing attacks that slowed its website and consumed engineering resources. Their challenge was to repel these attacks and free their team from manually blocking IPs. The Fastly Next-Gen WAF solution provided the necessary tools to identify and rate limit this malicious traffic.

By implementing Fastly's Next-Gen WAF with its rate limiting and tagging features, BloomNation immediately reduced server strain. The solution eliminated load balancer maintenance, returned three full-time engineers to productive work, and ensured high site availability for a improved customer experience.

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Ashlin Jones

Lead DevOps Engineer