Case Study: Khan Academy auto-blocks a 17,000% traffic spike with Fastly
Key results
The challenge
Khan Academy delivers free education to millions worldwide, including regions with less reliable networks where every millisecond of latency matters, while facing millions of bot requests per day and volumetric attacks.
The solution
Khan Academy adopted Fastly Compute, Bot Management, and DDoS Protection to streamline request flows, reduce network hops, and classify and tag traffic.
“We've seen DDoS Protection activate multiple times, like during an attempted attack where traffic spiked by over 17,000%, and it automatically blocked the malicious surge before it ever reached our core services.”
MCMiguel CastilloStaff Software Engineer, Khan Academy
The results, in context
Fastly DDoS Protection automatically blocked an attempted attack in which traffic spiked over 17,000% before it reached core services, and the team now classifies and tags 100% of its traffic to take faster, smarter action.