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header: Media Shield for Live
last_updated: '2020-12-18'
url: https://docs.fastly.com/products/media-shield-for-live
---

Fastly Media Shield for Live offers customers the ability to decrease origin traffic by [reducing multiple CDN requests](https://www.fastly.com/documentation/guides/concepts/edge-state/cache/request-collapsing/) of live video events or live linear channels into a single request back to your origin. Media Shield for Live works with your existing architecture by making Fastly the origin to all of your end-user-serving CDNs. This also allows you to take advantage of Fastly’s [Observability features](https://www.fastly.com/documentation/guides/observability/about-observability/about-the-observability-pages) in a multi-CDN environment.

> **NOTE:** Some Fastly products can be purchased directly in the web interface on the [Products page](https://www.fastly.com/documentation/guides/account-info/billing/managing-product-purchases-and-trials/) by an account Superuser or User Admin. Be sure to review all limitations, considerations, and [pricing information](https://www.fastly.com/pricing) before purchase. Alternatively, contact your customer success manager or email [sales@fastly.com](mailto:sales@fastly.com) for product purchase or pricing information.