Edge Overview
FoundryDB Edge puts a managed HTTP gateway in front of your application. It is served from European points of presence (Stockholm, Helsinki, and Frankfurt), so requests are handled close to your users while traffic is forwarded to your application origin.
What Edge Provides
| Capability | What it does |
|---|---|
| Custom domains | Bring your own domain and route it through the gateway. |
| Automatic TLS | Certificates are issued and renewed for your domain automatically. |
| Edge caching | Cacheable responses are served from the point of presence. |
| Rate limiting | Protect your origin by capping request rates per client. |
| Web application firewall (WAF) | Detection of common malicious request patterns. |
| Request analytics | Per-request visibility into traffic, status codes, and cache behavior. |
Resilience and Scale
Beyond the gateway features above, Edge is built to stay reachable and to keep pace with traffic:
- Each point of presence runs as a highly available pair, so a single node failure does not take your domain offline.
- If an entire point of presence becomes unavailable, traffic is automatically repointed to another location.
- Each point of presence scales out as request volume rises and scales back in as it subsides.
See Resilience and Autoscaling for details on how these behaviors work and what you can observe.
Where Edge Runs
Points of presence are located in the EU:
- Stockholm
- Helsinki
- Frankfurt
Your domain is served from these locations. Traffic is forwarded from the point of presence to your application origin.