# Vercel — The Frontend Cloud: Powering resiliency for global web applications

- Company: Vercel (vercel.com)
- Announced: 2024-02-29T13:00:00+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://vercel.com/blog/the-resiliency-of-the-frontend-cloud
- Record: https://forck.live/items/21006-the-frontend-cloud-powering-resiliency-for-global-web-applications
- Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway

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.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://vercel.com/blog/the-resiliency-of-the-frontend-cloud:

> In contrast to traditional server-based environments, where resource allocation and load balancing are manual infrastructure concerns that can limit application responsiveness and scalability, the serverless architecture of the Frontend Cloud dynamically manages compute resources for each request.

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