At Vercel, our philosophy is to take ownership for , not blame, our vendors. Customers use our services to gain velocity, reliability, and ship wonderful products. Whether we picked A or B as one of the components of our “circuit design” is entirely our responsibility. Vercel is fully accountable for this incident, even if it's now public that it was triggered by the unexpected outage of AWS us-east-1 (called iad1 region ). Vercel uses AWS infrastructure primitives , is part of the AWS marketplace , offers secure connectivity to AWS services, and shares a long history with AWS of pioneering serverless computing . To our customers, Vercel is unequivocally responsible for this outage . Our goal is to simplify the cloud and offer its best version. Through framework-defined infrastructure , we help developers focus on the application layer by deploying global infrastructure resources that are highly optimized.…