Vercel and edge hosting - frontend delivery at global scale
Vercel deployment, preview environments, edge performance, and production setup for Next.js and frontend-heavy applications that need speed without infrastructure management.
How we use it
Vercel is our default for Next.js deployments. For applications that outgrow Vercel's pricing or need backend infrastructure in the same network, we migrate to AWS with ECS Fargate and CloudFront as the CDN layer.
Best fit for
Vercel's Edge Network now spans 100+ cities globally. Vercel's 2024 platform updates introduced Partial Prerendering (PPR) for Next.js - a rendering strategy that delivers a static shell to the browser instantly while streaming dynamic content in the background, cutting perceived time-to-interactive on dynamic pages to under 100ms. With Core Web Vitals a confirmed Google ranking signal and INP replacing FID as a Core Web Vital in 2024, Vercel's edge infrastructure gives teams a measurable SEO performance advantage without custom CDN configuration.
What's included
Capabilities
Deployment architecture & IaC (Terraform)
CI/CD pipeline setup & automation
Monitoring, alerting & observability
Backup, rollback & disaster recovery planning
Cost review & right-sizing
Fit analysis
Is this right for you?
Honest breakdown of where Vercel & Edge Hosting shines — and where it doesn't. Pick the right tool.
When to choose this
Right fit scenarios
You are deploying a Next.js application and want automatic preview URLs for every pull request, zero-config deployment from Git pushes, and a global edge CDN without any infrastructure configuration
Your marketing team needs to ship new landing pages, campaign variants, and CMS-driven content without waiting for a deployment queue or involving infrastructure engineers
You want shareable branch preview URLs for every feature branch - so designers and stakeholders can review on a live URL before code merges to main
Your application uses Next.js Image Optimization, Edge Runtime, Server Actions, or Partial Prerendering that benefit from Vercel's first-party Next.js infrastructure
You are a startup or agency that wants zero infrastructure management overhead - no servers to maintain, no certificates to renew, no capacity to plan
When to choose this
Right fit scenarios
You are deploying a Next.js application and want automatic preview URLs for every pull request, zero-config deployment from Git pushes, and a global edge CDN without any infrastructure configuration
Your marketing team needs to ship new landing pages, campaign variants, and CMS-driven content without waiting for a deployment queue or involving infrastructure engineers
You want shareable branch preview URLs for every feature branch - so designers and stakeholders can review on a live URL before code merges to main
Your application uses Next.js Image Optimization, Edge Runtime, Server Actions, or Partial Prerendering that benefit from Vercel's first-party Next.js infrastructure
You are a startup or agency that wants zero infrastructure management overhead - no servers to maintain, no certificates to renew, no capacity to plan
Honest limitations
Not the best fit if…
Applications with long-running backend processes, background jobs, or scheduled tasks that exceed Vercel's 300-second function timeout limit on Enterprise plans
Teams with strict data residency requirements that need to control which specific AWS region and availability zone their data is processed in
Heavily database-driven applications where persistent server-side connection pooling is required - serverless functions create new connections on each invocation, which requires PgBouncer to manage connection limits
Businesses spending above ₹50,000/month on Vercel where migrating the frontend to AWS behind CloudFront significantly reduces infrastructure costs at the expense of setup complexity