Case Study: Shutterstock achieves faster, lower-cost content delivery with Fastly

Shutterstock cuts storage costs by 68% with Fastly

Shutterstock, Inc., a leading creative platform, faced challenges with multi-cloud storage performance and high operating costs for its vast content library. They sought a solution that could provide geo-diverse, high-performance object storage with flexible compute policies to better serve their global audience. This led them to partner with Fastly and utilize services like Fastly Object Storage and Fastly Compute.

By implementing Fastly's platform, Shutterstock centralized its object catalog with a guaranteed performance profile. The results were significant, including a 68% reduction in storage layer operating costs and over $100,000 in monthly savings on primary object storage. Fastly also helped reduce delivery costs by $500,000 while improving the overall customer experience with better performance.