Accelerating the developer experience using AWS databases with Vercel

Processing trillions of requests monthly and supporting more than 14 million developers, Vercel aims to help developers “just ship things” quickly by removing setup friction. Database configuration, often requiring a tedious setup process, frequently slows initial progress. “AWS databases are proven and ready for massive production scale,” says Tom Occhino, chief product officer at Vercel. “That scale comes with many critical configurations. But when I’m just getting started, I don’t want to think about any of this yet.”

Vercel, an AWS Partner, created a native integration to help customers provision AWS databases quickly without managing configurations, maintenance, or scaling. Through the Vercel dashboard, developers can connect to existing AWS accounts or create new ones in a few seconds, quickly accessing AWS databases.

Examples include Amazon Aurora, which offers high performance and availability at a global scale through Aurora PostgreSQL serverless—an on-demand, auto scaling configuration for Aurora—and Aurora DSQL—a serverless distributed SQL database. Developers can also use Amazon DynamoDB—a serverless, fully managed, distributed NoSQL database.

These serverless databases automatically start up, shut down, and scale in response to demand so that developers pay only for the resources they consume. “Ready to power applications at a massive scale, these are the same databases you can create on the AWS console,” says Occhino. “You get all the benefits of Amazon DynamoDB and Aurora without thinking about the database setup.”

Now, developers can set up a database and connect it to an application in less than 1 minute—all on the Vercel dashboard—without managing configurations. For further management, the dashboard provides one-click access to the AWS console. Vercel also extended this integration to its AI-powered frontend development tool, v0, which generates entire applications through simple conversations and automatically provisions AWS databases.

“We’re condensing weeks of development into a fraction of the time,” says Occhino. “This is the relationship we’re building using AWS: not only integrations but also intelligent infrastructure that adapts as your ideas evolve.”