Vercel processed 115.8 billion requests during Black Friday-Cyber Monday 2025, a 33.6% year-over-year increase, maintaining consistent performance without manual configuration. The platform handled 518,027 peak requests per second while deploying 6.1 million application versions and routing 24 billion AI Gateway requests. Infrastructure capabilities including Fluid compute (43.2B invocations), caching (56.9B hits), and security filtering (7.5B firewall actions) operated automatically at global scale.
Infrastructure
Billions of requests: Black Friday-Cyber Monday 2025
Vercel processed 115.8 billion requests during BFCM 2025 (518K peak RPS) without manual intervention, demonstrating automatic global infrastructure scaling at 33.6% YoY growth.
Friday, April 17, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: Vercel BlogBY sys://pipeline
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