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Case Study: Shutterstock cuts storage-layer costs 68% and delivery costs $500K with Fastly

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Key facts · TL;DR
Company
Shutterstock
Industry
Digital Media
Challenge
Multi-cloud, high-performance object storage
Headline result
68% lower storage-layer operating costs

Key results

68%
Storage-layer operating cost cut
First 90 days
$500,000
Reduction in delivery costs
First 90 days
$100,000/mo
Saved on primary object storage
First 90 days
115 PB
Content delivered
First 90 days

The challenge

Shutterstock needed multi-cloud, geo-diverse, high-performance object storage to hold and serve its large media catalog. The team wanted a known performance profile and guaranteed latency between its object store and the last mile where delivery is tuned.

The solution

Shutterstock adopted Fastly Object Storage alongside Fastly Compute and Fastly VCL, moving to a hardened, performant storage layer paired with Fastly's edge delivery.

Within our first 90 days with Fastly, we delivered over 115 petabytes of content, cut storage layer operating costs by 68%, saved over $100,000 per month on primary object storage, and reduced delivery costs by $500,000—all while delighting our customers with a better price profile.

JF
Jefferson Frazer
Director of Cloud Infrastructure, Shutterstock

The results, in context

Within its first 90 days on Fastly, Shutterstock delivered over 115 petabytes of content, cut storage-layer operating costs by 68%, saved over $100,000 per month on primary object storage, and reduced delivery costs by $500,000.

Products used

Fastly Fastly Object StorageFastly Fastly ComputeFastly Fastly VCL