diff --git a/documentation/docs/globals/fetch.mdx b/documentation/docs/globals/fetch.mdx index 0fc2614628..b2e05a4f36 100644 --- a/documentation/docs/globals/fetch.mdx +++ b/documentation/docs/globals/fetch.mdx @@ -37,9 +37,9 @@ Backends are configured using the Fastly service backend configuration, see the ## Dynamic Backends -Dynamic backends are a compute feature that allow services to define backends for themselves. This is a service-level Fastly feature that must be enabled through [Fastly Support](https://support.fastly.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=360000269711). +Dynamic backends are a compute feature that allow services to define backends for themselves. -When dynamic backends are enabled at the service level, the explicit `backend` option is no longer required for `fetch()` requests, and will instead be automatically created. +If the `backend` option is not provided when making `fetch()` requests, a backend will be automatically created by extracting the protocol, host, and port from the provided URL. In addition, custom backend configuration options can then also be provided through the [`Backend()`](../fastly:backend/Backend/Backend.mdx) constructor.