Azion
2 known investors
Azion offers an edge computing platform for building, deploying, and scaling web and serverless applications, APIs, and AI applications on distributed infrastructure. It also provides security solutions such as WAAP, bot management, and API gateway, along with content delivery, image optimization, and live streaming services for enterprises.
Also known as Azion Technologies
Investors · 2
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Azion operates a distributed "web platform" that combines networking, serverless compute, AI, data and security services intended to run application logic close to end users rather than in a small number of centralized cloud regions. The platform is organized into product families: Compute (Functions for serverless code, Rules Engine for programmable request handling, Load Balancer, Image Processor), AI (AI Inference for running models closer to users, AI Gateway for securing and optimizing AI traffic), Data (Object Storage, SQL Database, KV Store, Cache) and Security (Web Application Firewall, API Gateway, Bot Management, DNS).
Its Applications product acts as the foundation for building and running distributed web applications: incoming requests are processed through configurable business rules covering request rewriting, header manipulation and cache control, with no-code logic for cookie handling, response modification and device-based behavior. The Advanced Rules Engine evaluates conditions and applies behaviors such as cache bypass, origin redirect and custom responses. Applications can connect to multiple origins, including web servers, on-premises and cloud services, and AI model providers, and supports HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 with QUIC, IPv6, mandatory TLS enforcement and HMAC authentication. An integrated marketplace offers pre-built resources for security, A/B testing and data processing.
Developer-facing tooling includes automated deployment via Git or CLI, compatibility with modern web frameworks, APIs for automation and integration, infrastructure-as-code via Terraform, a GraphQL API for metrics and events, and an azion.config.js configuration file with build presets such as TypeScript workers.
Business model
Azion sells a managed, multi-product platform on which customers deploy code, delivery and security policies without managing regions, capacity or scaling. Entry is via a free tier ("Start Free") with add-on modules — Functions, Cache, Load Balancer, Image Processor, Application Accelerator — enabled on demand on top of the core Applications product, alongside an enterprise sales motion ("Talk to a Specialist").
Traction
The company reports network-level scale of 100+ data centers, 100+ Tbps of throughput, more than 400 billion daily transactions and 30 ms median latency, and cites customer outcomes including Netshoes automatically blocking more than 4 million threats in six months, Magalu maintaining high availability for hundreds of global-scale applications, and Grupo Pão de Açúcar stopping a cyberattack while reducing costs by 30%. Claimed platform benefits include 7x faster pages, 90% lower cloud costs, 40x more simultaneous connections and 100% OWASP Top 10 mitigation.
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Market position
Azion positions itself as a distributed infrastructure alternative to centralized cloud regions and traditional CDN/security stacks. It was recognized in G2 Spring 2026 reports as a Leader in CDN, Web Security and DDoS Protection and a High Performer in Cloud Security, WAF, Bot Detection and Mitigation, SSL & TLS Certificate Tools and API Security Tools; in G2 Winter 2026 reports as a Leader in CDN and High Performer in several security categories; and as a Leader in the GigaOm Radar for Edge Platforms, described there as the only purpose-built edge platform meeting all key criteria. It also received a 2023 North American New Product Innovation Award in the Edge Serverless Computing category.
Consolidation of delivery, distributed serverless execution, data services and programmable security into one managed platform, with no cold starts, security policies extensible by code, routing placed inside ISP last-mile networks, and AI-native primitives such as AI Inference and AI Gateway running at distributed locations.
Technology
The platform is built on a fully managed global network of more than 100 data centers with intelligent routing and automatic failover, and more than 3,300 directly connected ASNs. Traffic entry points are placed inside ISP last-mile networks and connected through IXPs, peering and Tier 1 transit to reduce hops. Execution is serverless and on-demand with automatic scaling and elimination of cold starts; state can be kept close to execution using services such as KV Store. Security is programmable in code and applied in the delivery path, including DDoS mitigation, bot management and WAF, with protection against attacks such as BGP hijacking. The company reports PCI and SOC 2/3 compliance.
Go-to-market
Self-service free signup and developer tooling (CLI, Git deployment, Terraform, framework compatibility, marketplace) combined with direct enterprise engagement via specialist consultations, supported by published customer case studies and third-party analyst and review-site recognition.
Enterprises and development teams running mission-critical web applications, APIs and AI workloads, including large e-commerce and retail organizations. Named customers include Netshoes, Magalu and Grupo Pão de Açúcar (GPA).
Geography
Global network of more than 100 data centers, with customer references concentrated in Latin America (Brazilian retailers Netshoes, Magalu and Grupo Pão de Açúcar) and a website published in both English and Spanish.
Compiled by commissioned research from 5 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 4
launches, deals, and filingsRecognized as a Leader in CDN, Web Security and DDoS Protection, and a High Performer in Cloud Security, WAF, Bot Detection and Mitigation, SSL & TLS Certificate Tools, and API Security Tools.
Recognized as a Leader in CDN and a High Performer in Web Security, DDoS Protection, WAF, Bot Detection and Mitigation, SSL & TLS Certificate Tools, and DNS Security Solution.
Azion was named a Leader and described as the only edge platform built specifically for that purpose, with capabilities meeting all key criteria in the report.
Azion was awarded in the Edge Serverless Computing category of the 2023 North American New Product Innovation Award, recognized for consistently exceeding customer performance expectations.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 5
primary sources listed
- Azionazion.com · web
5 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Azion do?
- Azion runs a distributed web platform for building, running and protecting applications, AI workloads and APIs at the edge.
- Who are Azion's investors?
- Azion's investors include MONASHEES, Qualcomm Ventures.