Last year we announced the Vercel Dubai region (ππ‘ππ·) on AWS ππ-πππππππ-π·. A region is made up of multiple availability zones (AZs). The AWS availability zone ππππ·-ππ£πΈ just got π₯ bombed. Our primary traffic ingress AZ has been unaffected. Fluid functions are also unaffected, because they automatically deploy to multiple AZs and load balance around them. AZs are basically βsub-regionsβ. Theyβre designed to have independent power supply, cooling, networking, physical security, fire suppression, and logistical operations. If Dubaiβs region got seriously impacted, Vercel automatically reroutes traffic. Fluid functions can deploy to a backup region for automatic failover. So you get multi-AZ and multi-region. In a situation like this, this means citizens being able to access critical information, news, emergency services, and so on. Hereβs hoping the situation normalizes as soon as possible and peace prevails π€
