Case Study: Canstar achieves faster, more secure digital experiences with Fastly

Canstar delivers microsecond response times and top security with low total cost of ownership

Canstar, Australia’s comparison site for banking, insurance, telco, wealth, and energy, needed to make its large, comparison-driven websites faster and more secure while keeping costs low. The team wanted to cut load times from milliseconds to microseconds, improve DDoS and bot protection, and speed up development and release cycles using a cloud and CDN provider with strong security expertise. Fastly, including its CDN and Next-Gen WAF, was chosen to help meet those goals.

Fastly implemented its edge cloud platform across Canstar’s production and non-production environments, combining Fastly Next-Gen WAF, CDN, and Compute to simplify operations and reduce reliance on third-party vendors. The result was faster migration in under two weeks, lower cloud costs, better security reporting, improved observability, and quicker feature testing with production-like caching. Fastly also helped Canstar cache website queries, delivering near-instant results to users and strengthening performance, security, and total cost of ownership.

Canstar

Mohit Sharma

Lead DevOps Engineer