Case Study: The Weather Company achieves reliable, high-performance weather delivery with Fastly

The Weather Company forecasts accurate, reliable weather to 400 million monthly active users by partnering with Fastly

The Weather Company, an IBM business serving more than 400 million monthly active users worldwide, needed a way to handle massive scale and traffic spikes during severe weather events while delivering reliable forecasts, alerts, and video in real time. To support that demand, The Weather Company partnered with Fastly, using its video delivery and edge technology to keep critical weather content fast and accessible.

Fastly helped The Weather Company maintain about 99.9% uptime for video delivery, support hundreds of millions of requests per day, and seamlessly migrate services to its platform. The partnership also expanded edge capabilities with GraphQL and JavaScript at the edge, improving performance and resilience so users can quickly access the information they need, even during hurricanes and winter storms.

The Weather Company

Wendy Frazier

VP, Chief Technology Officer