Case Study: Hugging Face strengthens AI platform security and cuts WAF costs with Huskeys

Hugging Face boosts protection coverage by 83% with Huskeys

Hugging Face, the world's leading open-source AI community platform, faced challenges in scaling and optimizing its AWS WAF protections without adding headcount. Their small infrastructure team needed to adapt to rapidly changing traffic patterns, reduce high inspection costs, and eliminate manual tuning workflows to better defend against scraping, credential abuse, and bot-driven activity while maintaining critical performance for developers.

By implementing Huskeys' AI-powered security control plane on top of their existing AWS infrastructure, Hugging Face achieved continuous visibility and optimization. The solution from Huskeys enabled a 40% reduction in unnecessary WAF inspections, an 83% increase in protection coverage, and the prevention of over $200K per month in potential mitigation costs, all without replacing tools or increasing team size.

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