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Bunny.net

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Velocity6.3

Bunny.net is sprinting on edge breadth — AVIF, API Guardian, seamless migration, and Stream API ergonomics in two weeks.

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◆Current state
Bunny.net shipped a heavy April-into-May batch across its full surface area: AVIF input/output in the image Optimizer, image upscaling with resampling, seamless domain migration with DNS-verified SSL, and a new Stream 'Add video library' API endpoint that pre-configures encoding, transcribing, and resolutions in one call. Just outside the recent-six window, API Guardian (April 27) added schema-aware OpenAPI enforcement at the edge inside Bunny Shield. The cadence and breadth is closer to a hyperscaler than a niche CDN.
◆Where it's heading
Bunny.net is staying the affordable alternative to Cloudflare and Fastly while matching feature breadth release-by-release. The trajectory keeps adding capabilities up the stack — first CDN, then image optimization, then video streaming, now API security and zero-downtime migration. Each addition is a reason to consolidate workloads on Bunny instead of stitching multiple vendors. Expect continued pressure on the edge incumbents from below.
◆Prediction
Watch for AI-related edge primitives — model-serving at the edge, AI inference workers — that would put Bunny.net into Cloudflare Workers AI territory. The Stream API expansion suggests video AI (auto-transcription, scene detection) is also imminent.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1mo ago

    ​ ‘Add video library’ API update

    Stream's 'Add video library' API now pre-configures premium encoding, transcribing, and resolutions in a single call — practical reduction in setup steps for video-heavy customers provisioning libraries programmatically.

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  2. 1mo ago

    ​‘Add video library’ API update

    Duplicate publication of the 'Add video library' API update, same day. Feed encoding artifact (one copy has a zero-width space prefix, the other doesn't).

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  3. 1mo ago

    ​ AVIF support

    Duplicate of the AVIF support announcement, same day. Feed encoding artifact.

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  4. 1mo ago

    ​AVIF support

    Optimizer now handles AVIF as both input and output, offering meaningfully better compression than WebP at comparable quality. Standard image-CDN feature catch-up; matters for high-traffic sites where bytes shipped is a real cost.

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  5. 2mo ago

    ​ Seamless Domain Migration

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  6. 2mo ago

    ​Seamless Domain Migration

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    Zero-downtime domain migration to bunny.net via DNS-verified SSL issuance — the kind of switching-cost reducer that lets CDN customers actually move. Bunny is making it boring to leave Cloudflare or Fastly, which is exactly the point.

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