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Important

Acquia Edge powered by Akamai and Acquia Edge powered by Cloudflare are available only to Cloud Platform Enterprise and Site Factory subscribers. Acquia Edge Standard is a standalone subscription available to Acquia Cloud Platform customers and is not available to Acquia Cloud Site Factory (ACSF) 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 Standard

An integrated CDN and Web Application Firewall (WAF) solution for Acquia Cloud Platform customers. Provides pre-configured OWASP Top-10 WAF protections, rate limiting, IP access control, custom WAF rules, and a performance and security metrics dashboard all managed through the Edge Console at edge.acquia.com.

Acquia Edge Standard

Acquia Edge is powered by the following CDN providers:

*   Akamai
*   Cloudflare
*   Acquia Edge Standard

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

*   [Acquia Edge Powered by Akamai](/acquia-cloud-platform/add-ons/edge/acquia-edge-powered-akamai "Acquia Edge powered by Akamai")
*   [Acquia Edge Powered by Cloudflare](/acquia-cloud-platform/add-ons/edge/acquia-edge-powered-cloudflare "Acquia Edge powered by Cloudflare")
*   [Acquia Edge Standard](/acquia-cloud-platform/add-ons/edge-standard/overview "Overview")

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