Case Study: Hugging Face achieves stronger security and lower WAF costs with Huskeys

How Intelligent Application Edge Optimization Scaled Protection, Reduced Cloud Spend, and Turned Elite Engineers into Force Multipliers

Hugging Face, the world's leading open-source AI community, faced the challenge of securing its high-traffic platform against threats like bots and credential abuse without increasing its small, elite engineering headcount. Using native AWS WAF capabilities had led to operational challenges, high costs, and limited visibility. Hugging Face partnered with vendor Huskeys to scale and optimize its protection efficiently while allowing the team to stay focused on platform innovation.

The solution from Huskeys involved deploying its AI-powered security control plane on top of the existing AWS WAF infrastructure. This provided continuous visibility, precision tuning, and cost-aware security orchestration. The results were significant: an 83% increase in protection coverage, a 40% reduction in unnecessary WAF inspections, and the prevention of over $200K per month in potential mitigation costs. Huskeys enabled Hugging Face to achieve stronger, more efficient security that acts as a force multiplier for its lean team.

Hugging Face

Adrien Carreira

Head of Infrastructure