Fastly has teamed up with Google Cloud to put an AI security agent for edge and infrastructure incidents directly inside Gemini Enterprise. The new offering, called the Autonomous Edge Defense Agent (AEDA), is meant to speed up the way teams triage and fix production problems. Fastly’s blog says it can cut mean time to resolution (MTTR) from hours down to seconds.
Fastly describes AEDA as resting on a two-context architecture that pairs the company’s live request telemetry, global traffic patterns, and edge control plane with Gemini Enterprise’s stateful reasoning. It blends structured network telemetry with unstructured threat intelligence, and Google Cloud says it lets security teams investigate edge and infrastructure incidents in plain language inside Gemini Enterprise instead of manually parsing logs.
When a user flags an anomaly, AEDA can run an active root-cause-analysis loop, according to Fastly. The loop first generates hypotheses about plausible attack paths based on the initial edge signals, then executes autonomous background calls to Fastly’s global data layer, origin infrastructure, and telemetry stores. It finishes by translating the findings into remediation recommendations such as rate-limiting rules, WAF signature updates, or origin shielding changes, each delivered with supporting evidence, expected impact, and step-by-step guidance on how to apply it.
A central selling point is separating a coordinated attack from a routine application bug. Fastly says AEDA cross-references an organization’s telemetry against anonymized, aggregated global traffic to tell whether an anomaly is isolated or part of a broader campaign. Google Cloud frames this the same way, noting the agent pairs an organization’s own telemetry with anonymized intelligence drawn from Fastly’s global customer base to determine in seconds whether an incident is isolated or part of a larger attack on the sector, returning evidence-backed findings with a recommended fix.
The launch isn’t a one-off. Google Cloud said at its Cloud Next event that it is expanding the catalog of partner-built security agents in Gemini Enterprise, and AEDA is one of roughly twenty vendor offerings in that batch, alongside agents from Acalvio, Britive, Check Point, CrowdStrike, Cyera, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, Qualys, Splunk, Snyk, and Zscaler, among others. The agents fall into two buckets: security agents teams invoke directly in the Gemini Enterprise interface, and protections aimed at AI and agentic workloads. Google Cloud says the agents are discoverable and deployable through the Google Cloud Marketplace.
A couple of caveats are worth flagging. Fastly positions the investigation loop as user-triggered rather than fully hands-off, so a human still initiates the analysis. Neither company’s announcement lists general-availability timing, pricing, or regional rollout details, and the two write-ups are joint product announcements, so the practical scope of what customers can actually deploy today remains to be confirmed.