The Frontend Cloud: Powering resiliency for global web applications

Summary by forck

Vercel's Frontend Cloud provides serverless infrastructure and an Edge Network with 18 compute-capable data centers and over 100 points of presence to automatically scale web applications and handle traffic spikes without manual intervention.

• It includes built-in high-availability features such as regional failover, durable caching that serves stale content during backend outages, and Edge Config for backend failover.
• Customers like Under Armour, Sonos, NZXT, and The Washington Post have used the platform to maintain performance during peak events.