# Vercel — Preventing infrastructure abuse with Vercel Firewall

- Company: Vercel (vercel.com)
- Announced: 2024-09-24T13:00:00+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://vercel.com/blog/preventing-infrastructure-abuse-with-vercel-firewall
- Record: https://forck.live/items/20946-preventing-infrastructure-abuse-with-vercel-firewall
- Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway

Vercel describes its Firewall's multi-layered DDoS protection, which blocks around 1 billion suspicious TCP connections weekly and recently mitigated a 1.37 Tbps attack with no downtime. The Firewall provides automated defense across all user tiers, integrating Layer 4 and Layer 7 protections, and includes a customizable WAF for application-level threats.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://vercel.com/blog/preventing-infrastructure-abuse-with-vercel-firewall:

> In any given week, Vercel Firewall blocks around 1 billion suspicious TCP connections, with some days seeing upwards of 7 billion malicious HTTP requests.

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