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title: "Overview"
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summary: "Enhance your web application's security and performance with Acquia Edge. Discover CDN, DDoS protection, and WAF solutions for Cloud Platform and Site Factory subscribers. Explore provider-specific offerings from Akamai and Cloudflare."
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Important

Available only to Cloud Platform Enterprise and Site Factory subscribers.

Acquia Edge is a family of products to improve the security and performance of web applications. 

[Product Legal Guide and Support Scope](/service-offerings/edge-product-guide) [Support User's Guide](/service-offerings/support-users-guide)

The following table lists the offerings available for Cloud Platform and Site Factory subscriptions:

**Offering**

**Description**

**Available for**

_Edge CDN_

Provides a highly customizable and globally load balanced content delivery network (CDN) so that visitors can interact with your application at the fastest possible speeds, irrespective of their location.

Acquia Edge Powered by Akamai

_Edge Web Application & API Protection_

Secures your application with protection against distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks, a Web Application Firewall (WAF), and high-speed DNS. Edge Security examines web traffic looking for suspicious activities.

Acquia Edge Powered by Akamai

_Acquia Edge WAAP & Bot Management_

Secures your application by providing distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack protections and a Web Application Firewall (WAF).

Acquia Edge Powered by Akamai

_Edge Web Application Firewall (WAF)_

Provides a web application firewall and distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) protection to help mitigate the effects of online threats, and optimize legitimate visitor requests for protected websites.

Acquia Edge Powered by Cloudflare.

Acquia Edge is powered by the following CDN providers:

*   Akamai
*   Cloudflare

For more details, see product-specific documentation for the respective provider-powered offering:

*   [Acquia Edge Powered by Akamai](https://docs.acquia.com/acquia-cloud-platform/add-ons/edge/edge-akamai)
*   [Acquia Edge Powered by Cloudflare](https://docs.acquia.com/acquia-cloud-platform/add-ons/edge/edge-cloudflare)

Contact your account management team if you do not know which provider is powering your Edge subscription.