Service disruption on August 7, 2024 — Edge Middleware and Functions outage
On August 7, 2024, Vercel's Edge Middleware and Edge Functions experienced a global outage caused by an upstream compute infrastructure provider entering an erroneous configuration state. Vercel is sharing details about the incident response and steps being taken to prevent similar failures.
On August 7, 2024, Vercel's Edge Middleware and Edge Functions experienced a significant outage affecting many customers. We sincerely apologize for the service disruption.
Vercel’s platform is designed to . As standard practice, we use staggered rollouts for both code and configuration changes. Every aspect of our infrastructure is designed to gracefully fail over to the next available region in the event of an incident, and ensures no single point of failure across infrastructure components. However, on Wednesday, an upstream provider for a subset of our compute infrastructure went into a globally erroneous configuration state.minimize the risk of global downtime
This event tested our infrastructure's resilience and how we respond to a global provider failure. Let’s break down what happened, how we responded, and the steps we’re taking to eliminate this as a possible failure mode.
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