Vercel Edge Network Regions

View the list of regions supported by Vercel's Edge Network and learn about our global infrastructure.
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Vercel's Edge Network enables you to store content close to your customers and run compute in regions close to your data, reducing latency and improving end-user performance.

An Edge Network is both a Content Delivery Network (CDN) and a globally distributed platform for running compute. This page outlines the regions Vercel's Edge Network supports and explains our global infrastructure.

Our global Edge Network has 119 Points of Presence in 94 cities across 51 countries.
Our global Edge Network has 119 Points of Presence in 94 cities across 51 countries.

Vercel's Edge Network is built on a sophisticated global infrastructure designed to optimize performance and reliability:

  • Points of Presence (PoPs): We operate over 100 PoPs distributed across the globe. These PoPs serve as the first point of contact for incoming requests, ensuring low-latency access for users worldwide.
  • Edge Regions: Behind these PoPs, we maintain 18 compute-capable regions where your code can run close to your data.
  • Private Network: Traffic flows from PoPs to the nearest Edge region through private, low-latency connections, ensuring fast and efficient data transfer.

This architecture balances the benefits of widespread geographical distribution with the efficiency of concentrated caching and compute resources.

Our approach to caching is designed to maximize efficiency and performance:

  • By maintaining fewer, dense regions, we increase cache hit probability. This means that popular content is more likely to be available in each region's cache.
  • The extensive PoP network ensures that users can quickly access regional caches, minimizing latency.
  • This concentrated caching strategy results in higher cache hit ratios, reducing the need for requests to go back to the origin server and significantly improving response times.
Regions table
Region Code
Region Name
Reference Location
arn1eu-north-1Stockholm, Sweden
bom1ap-south-1Mumbai, India
cdg1eu-west-3Paris, France
cle1us-east-2Cleveland, USA
cpt1af-south-1Cape Town, South Africa
dub1eu-west-1Dublin, Ireland
fra1eu-central-1Frankfurt, Germany
gru1sa-east-1São Paulo, Brazil
hkg1ap-east-1Hong Kong
hnd1ap-northeast-1Tokyo, Japan
iad1us-east-1Washington, D.C., USA
icn1ap-northeast-2Seoul, South Korea
kix1ap-northeast-3Osaka, Japan
lhr1eu-west-2London, United Kingdom
pdx1us-west-2Portland, USA
sfo1us-west-1San Francisco, USA
sin1ap-southeast-1Singapore
syd1ap-southeast-2Sydney, Australia

In addition to our 18 compute-capable regions, Vercel's Edge Network includes over 100 PoPs distributed across the globe. These PoPs serve several crucial functions:

  1. Request routing: PoPs intelligently route requests to the nearest or most appropriate edge region with single-digit millisecond latency.
  2. DDoS protection: They provide a first line of defense against distributed denial-of-service attacks.
  3. SSL termination: PoPs handle SSL/TLS encryption and decryption, offloading this work from origin servers.

The extensive PoP network ensures that users worldwide can access your content with minimal latency, even if compute resources are concentrated in fewer regions.

When you use the vercel dev CLI command to mimic your deployment environment locally, the region is assigned dev1 to mimic the Vercel platform infrastructure.

Region CodeReference Location
dev1localhost

Functions should be executed in the same region as your database, or as close to it as possible, for the lowest latency.

Vercel's Edge Network is designed with high availability and fault tolerance in mind:

  • In the event of regional downtime, application traffic is automatically rerouted to the next closest Edge Network region. This ensures that your application remains available to users even during localized outages.
  • Traffic will be rerouted to the next closest region in the following order:

Regions by priority

P0iad1
P1cle1
P2sfo1
P3dub1
P4pdx1
P5lhr1
P6cdg1
P7fra1
P8arn1
P9gru1
P10hnd1
P11kix1
P12icn1
P13bom1
P14hkg1
P15syd1
P16sin1
P17cpt1
  • For Enterprise customers, Serverless Functions can automatically failover to a different region if the region they are running in becomes unavailable. Learn more about Serverless Function failover.

This multi-layered approach to resiliency, combining our extensive PoP network with intelligent routing and regional failover capabilities, ensures high availability and consistent performance for your applications.

Last updated on August 26, 2024