# Cross-link map: How Vercel CDN Works (/docs/how-vercel-cdn-works)

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## Semantically closest pages

- [Vercel CDN overview](https://vercel.com/docs/cdn) — Vercel's CDN is a globally distributed platform that handles routing, caching, security, and compression for every deplo
- [How requests flow through Vercel](https://vercel.com/docs/fundamentals/infrastructure) — Learn how Vercel routes, secures, and serves requests from your users to your application.
- [Using Vercel as a Standalone CDN](https://vercel.com/kb/guide/using_vercel_as_a_cdn) — Use Vercel's external rewrites to proxy and cache content from external websites or APIs through Vercel's global edge ne
- [CDN security](https://vercel.com/docs/cdn-security) — Learn how Vercel's CDN secures every request with HTTPS, TLS, DDoS mitigation, firewall protection, and security headers
- [Caching](https://vercel.com/docs/caching) — Learn how Vercel caches content across multiple layers to deliver fast responses and reduce load on your backend.

## This page links to (22)

- [Bot Management](https://vercel.com/docs/bot-management) — Learn how to manage bot traffic to your site.
- [Cache-Control headers](https://vercel.com/docs/caching/cache-control-headers) — Learn about the cache-control headers sent to each Vercel deployment and how to use them to control the caching behavior
- [Vercel CDN Cache](https://vercel.com/docs/caching/cdn-cache) — Learn how Vercel's CDN cache stores your content across a global network to reduce latency and origin load.
- [Runtime Cache](https://vercel.com/docs/caching/runtime-cache) — Vercel Runtime Cache is a specialized cache that stores responses from data fetches in Vercel functions
- [CDN security](https://vercel.com/docs/cdn-security) — Learn how Vercel's CDN secures every request with HTTPS, TLS, DDoS mitigation, firewall protection, and security headers
- [Content Security Policy](https://vercel.com/docs/cdn-security/security-headers) — Learn how the Content Security Policy \\(CSP\\) offers defense against web vulnerabilities, its key features, and best pra
- [vercel dev](https://vercel.com/docs/cli/dev) — Learn how to replicate the Vercel deployment environment locally and test your Vercel Project before deploying using the
- [Frameworks on Vercel](https://vercel.com/docs/frameworks) — Vercel supports a wide range of the most popular frameworks, optimizing how your application builds and runs no matter w
- [Vercel Functions](https://vercel.com/docs/functions) — Build API routes, webhooks, and agent request handlers with Vercel Functions, then test and debug them with Vercel CLI.
- [Configuring regions for Vercel Functions](https://vercel.com/docs/functions/configuring-functions/region) — Learn how to configure regions for Vercel Functions.
- [System Headers](https://vercel.com/docs/headers) — This reference covers the list of request, response, cache-control, and custom response headers included with deployment
- [Vercel CDN Compression](https://vercel.com/docs/how-vercel-cdn-works/compression) — Vercel helps reduce data transfer and improve performance by supporting both Gzip and Brotli compression
- [Incremental Static Regeneration \\(ISR\\)](https://vercel.com/docs/incremental-static-regeneration) — ISR serves cached static pages while regenerating content in the background. Vercel\\\\
- [Request Collapsing](https://vercel.com/docs/incremental-static-regeneration/request-collapsing) — Learn how Vercel's CDN shields your origin during traffic surges for uncached routes.
- [Microfrontends](https://vercel.com/docs/microfrontends) — Learn how to use microfrontends on Vercel to split apart large applications, improve developer experience and make incre
- [Global network and regions](https://vercel.com/docs/regions) — View the list of regions supported by Vercel's CDN and learn about our global infrastructure.
- [Rolling Releases](https://vercel.com/docs/rolling-releases) — Learn how to use Rolling Releases for more cautious deployments.
- [Redirects](https://vercel.com/docs/routing/redirects) — Learn how to use redirects on Vercel to instruct Vercel's platform to redirect incoming requests to a new URL.
- [Rewrites on Vercel](https://vercel.com/docs/routing/rewrites) — Learn how to use rewrites to send users to different URLs without modifying the visible URL.
- [Skew Protection](https://vercel.com/docs/skew-protection) — Learn how Vercel's Skew Protection ensures that the client and server stay in sync for any particular deployment.
- [Vercel WAF](https://vercel.com/docs/vercel-firewall/vercel-waf) — Learn how to secure your website with the Vercel Web Application Firewall \\(WAF\\)
- [Framework-defined infrastructure](https://vercel.com/blog/framework-defined-infrastructure)

## Pages that link here (2)

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### From vercel-kb

- [How to choose a Salesforce Commerce Cloud storefront: PWA Kit, Storefront Next, or Next.js](https://vercel.com/kb/guide/salesforce-pwa-kit-vs-storefront-next-vs-nextjs) — Compare PWA Kit, Storefront Next, and a Next.js storefront on Vercel for Salesforce Commerce Cloud. Learn how caching, p

### From vercel-docs

- [Vercel CDN overview](https://vercel.com/docs/cdn) — Vercel's CDN is a globally distributed platform that handles routing, caching, security, and compression for every deplo