ORIGIN SHIELD
Absorb Traffic Spikes, Overcome Outages
Effortlessly offload web and video traffic to reduce backend costs and stay online when CDNs go down.
User Experience: Too Important to Leave to Chance
Stay Online, Always
Staying online is the name of the game.
Downtime is costly, and audiences deserve consistent quality of experience. Traffic spikes and CDN cache misses put pressure on backend web services, affecting performance and stability, and public CDNs can fail.
User experience should never be left to chance. An additional resilience layer makes all the difference.
Origin Shield
A Resilience Layer for Web and Video
Varnish Enterprise caching software sits in front of backend servers, accelerating web and video content, protecting infrastructure from traffic spikes and ensuring normal operations during outages.
As an origin shield, it minimizes calls to backend servers by being a collection point for incoming uncached requests.
From thousands of requests, only a few hit the backend. More stability, more uptime, more users getting the best experience.
Benefits
After deploying a Varnish origin shield, many enterprises find additional benefits even after it solves their primary challenge, whether that's resilience, performance or cost.
Active Defense
Shield web servers from peak loads and DDoS attacks.
Reduce Spend
Reduce egress and hardware needs with 10x less traffic reaching backend web services.
Keep Delivering
Serve web and video content during CDN outages to mitigate costly downtime and satisfy SLAs.
Stay Shoppable
Reduce risk cost-effectively and maintain uptime during critical, traffic-heavy periods.
Reduce Cache Misses
Catch The Content Public CDNs Miss
Cache misses increase when different CDN PoPs need identical content at the same time, or cannot cache certain data types like POST requests.
Varnish caches these misses, increasing cache-hit efficiency for more responsive web experiences and greater stability.
Seamless CDN revalidation. Protect infrastructure from the impact of revalidating CDN nodes.
Scalable security. Gain protection against intentional and unintentional attacks.
Reduce Egress
Make Cloud Affordable at Scale
Cloud origin services like AWS, Azure and GCP are reliable ways to deliver web content, but egress costs can become unsustainable as traffic increases.
Varnish Enterprise maximizes cache hits to reduce egress fees while delivering web content faster. A standard Varnish origin shield deployment sees a 10x reduction in backend traffic.
Who We Help
Because they deploy seamlessly into existing processes and architectures, Varnish origin shields are found everywhere, from major streaming services to global e-commerce operations.
“Varnish really saved the day. No sales were lost, and Varnish paid for itself by continuing to serve pages.”
System Architect
Major Multinational Cosmetics Business
Features
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Request Collapsing
Combine duplicate requests for uncached content to increase efficiency and reduce backhaul.
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CDN Revalidation
Update content across Public CDNs without flooding the backend with requests.
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Content Pre-Fetch
Predictively prefetch content to keep the cache warm for high-performance content delivery.
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Manual and Automatic Failover
Instant DNS switching to serve traffic from Varnish during unpredictable CDN downtime.
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Cache Invalidation
Remove thousands of objects from the cache instantly, and broadcast to other nodes.
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Edge Compute
Execute advanced logic at runtime to calibrate caching and CDN integration.
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HTTP Response Manipulation
Header access, creation and manipulation for singular, duplicate and groups of headers.
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DDoS Protection
Detect, prevent and mitigate Distributed Denial of Service attacks.
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Rate Limiting
Limit the bandwidth of individual clients.
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Elastic Scaling
Autoscale Varnish in a cloud or container service to continually reduce backend traffic at scale.
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See All Features
Varnish Enterprise has a magnitude of features and functionality. See full feature list here.
Success Stories
Ajax FC
Varnish Enterprise helps Ajax FC to achieve a 97% cache hit rate and ensure zero downtime.
Major Cosmetics Multinational
See how this major cosmetics brand kept their site up without losing any sales, achieving greater resilience and redundancy.
CBC
Canada's national broadcaster use Varnish to seamlessly deliver its digital content at any scale, even in times of outages.
Support Plans
Varnish Enterprise subscriptions include software licensing and assistance from the Varnish Support and Engineering teams. Plans vary according to specific needs but the excellence and deep knowledge of our team stays the same. Choose the plan to suit your needs:
Standard Support
LEVEL OF SUPPORT
- Enterprise software license
- 20 support requests/year
- 8 hour max. response time
Premium Support
LEVEL OF SUPPORT
- Enterprise software license
- 24/7/365 support
- Unlimited support requests
- 2 hour max. response time
- 72 hour workaround SLAs
Varnish as a Managed Service
LEVEL OF SUPPORT
In addition to Premium
- 24/7 management by Varnish
- Dedicated Support Team
- Flexible SLAs
"If you have a million requests in one second then there is no time to scale. We needed a solution capable of delivering such a load at scale, and Varnish is it."
Max Reckers
Technology Lead, AFC Ajax
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