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# Fastly Cloud Platform Commits $50 Million to Help Open-Source Projects for Free
- URL: https://itsfoss.com/news/fastly-open-source-initiative/
- Published: 2022-11-10T10:27:10.000Z
- Updated: 2022-11-10T10:27:10.000Z
- Description: Want to power up your open-source project with Fastly's offerings? Apply to be a part of the "Fast Forward" initiative and you get it for free!
- Author: Sourav Rudra
- Tags: Open Source, News, #Import 2025-11-08 21:15

[Fastly](https://www.fastly.com/?ref=itsfoss.com) is a cloud platform that provides edge services such as CDN, WAF, Bot protection, DDoS mitigation, and more.

They provide incredibly high-performance solutions that enterprises around the world use.

📢 With a [recent announcement](https://www.fastly.com/blog/fast-forward-lets-build-the-good-internet-together?ref=itsfoss.com), Fastly launched a new initiative to support open-source projects, developers, and non-profits.

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## Fastly's 'Fast Forward' Initiative

![fastly fast forward initiative](https://itsfoss.com/content/images/2022/11/Fastly_FastForward.png)

Fastly supports open-source projects such as [The H20 project](https://github.com/h2o?ref=itsfoss.com), [wit-bindgen](https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wit-bindgen?ref=itsfoss.com), [pushpin](https://pushpin.org/?ref=itsfoss.com), and more. 

In addition, they have been involved with organizations such as [IETF](https://www.ietf.org/?ref=itsfoss.com) and [W3C](https://www.w3.org/?ref=itsfoss.com) to contribute to various open-source protocols and standards.

With this initiative, they aim to further expand their support to projects that freely distribute their codebase and align with Fastly's open-source principles.

Fastly also emphasizes that they are trying to build a safer internet with the help of their customers and community.

Outreach programs like this should make this more achievable.

To further solidify their support, they are committing **$50 million in free services to open-source projects and the non-profits** who support them.

That sounds promising! 😃 And mindblowing! 🤯

Fastly is also a founding member of the '[Bytecode Alliance](https://bytecodealliance.org/?ref=itsfoss.com)' alongside Red Hat, Intel, and Mozilla.

💡

Bytecode Alliance is a nonprofit organization that focuses on building open standards such as [WebAssembly](https://webassembly.org/?ref=itsfoss.com), and [WASI](https://wasi.dev/?ref=itsfoss.com).

**If you are curious**, they have collaborated with Microsoft, Google, and Apple to develop privacy and security-focused initiatives like Private Access Tokens, Private Relay and Passkeys.

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## How to Apply?

Fastly has made this initiative available to everyone, irrespective of their skill level, background, and geographical location.

But, the open-source projects will have to comply with Fastly's open-source principles of being: 

**Open, inclusive, community-oriented, friendly to new contributors, and most importantly, built on trust.**

If you are interested in applying to this program, you can head to its [official webpage](https://www.fastly.com/fast-forward?ref=itsfoss.com) and fill up the form while exploring more.

[Apply for Fast Forward](https://www.fastly.com/fast-forward?ref=itsfoss.com)

*💬 Are you going to apply for Fast Forward by Fastly? Let us know in the comments!*