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Vercel Services: Run full stack on Vercel

Vercel just collapsed the full stack. Frontend, backend, agents, databases—one platform, one deploy.

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Why it matters

Vercel Services consolidates multi-framework backends into a single project with unified deployment, internal networking, and agent sandboxing. For founders and CTOs, this is a material shift in how to architect and operate AI agents and microservices without infrastructure sprawl.

The key facts

10 to know
  1. Vercel Services enables multiple frameworks (FastAPI, Flask, Express, Hono, Go, Rust) in one project with auto-detection

  2. Service-to-service communication stays internal on Vercel network—no CORS, no public internet egress

  3. Vercel Sandbox isolates agent execution with filesystem, shell, Docker support, and automatic persistence

  4. Vercel Functions support persistent WebSockets across Node.js, Python, Go runtimes

  5. Vercel Connect replaces long-lived secrets with short-lived OIDC-scoped credentials

  6. Database provisioning from Marketplace (Neon, Supabase, AWS Aurora, DynamoDB) with auto-injected credentials

  7. Vercel Queues, Workflows, and Cron for background jobs and durable multi-step processes

  8. Python backends deploy with up to 500MB dependencies; Functions run up to 30 minutes on Pro/Enterprise

  9. Fluid compute with Active CPU pricing—pay only for execution time, not idle connections

  10. Atomic deployments: frontend, backend, and services deploy/rollback together

Go to the source

Vercel Blogvercel.com

Publisher excerpt: To a user, an app with a Next.js frontend and a FastAPI backend feels like one product, and the same should be true for the engineers who build it. Instead, the two pieces are often deployed across different clouds with different development and deployment workflows. Today we're introducing , which…
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