Fastly’s Edge Rate Limiting provides customers with the ability to count client requests and optionally penalize clients for exceeding set rate limits, thereby controlling the rate of requests sent to origin servers. Common uses for the Edge Rate Limiting product include mitigating abusive use of a website or service (e.g. by a scraping bot or a denial of service attack) or applying limits on use of an expensive or billable resource (e.g. allowing only up to 1000 requests an hour to an API ...
