Create Vercel Firewall rules with natural language
Vercel just shipped natural language WAF rules. No more regex. Describe what you need, AI builds the firewall.
Why it matters
AI is moving into infrastructure automation—founders can now configure security policies in plain English rather than wrestling with traditional WAF syntax. This is a concrete example of AI-assisted DevOps shipping at scale.
The key facts
9 to knowVercel Firewall now supports natural language rule generation
Users can describe behavior and dashboard auto-generates WAF custom rules
Supports rate limiting, blocking, challenging, logging, and redirecting based on IP, path, country, user agent
Available via dashboard and Vercel CLI
Examples include authorization header validation, blocking /wp-admin, geo-blocking /checkout
Vercel adds natural language WAF rule generation to dashboard and CLI
Users can describe security behavior in plain text; system generates custom rules
Supports rate limiting, blocking, challenging, redirecting based on IP, path, country, user agent
Feature available via Vercel Firewall custom rules page and CLI
Go to the source
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Publisher excerpt: now lets you create WAF custom rules using natural language. Describe the behavior you need and the dashboard will generate the rule.Vercel Firewall Visit the to try creating a rate-limiting rule:firewall custom rules page Or use the Vercel CLI: let you control traffic to your site by logging,…