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Billions of dollars, billions of requests: Black Friday-Cyber Monday 2024
Blog post from Vercel
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During the Black Friday-Cyber Monday (BFCM) period in 2024, Vercel handled a significant amount of traffic for its customers, including 86.7 billion requests and 1.937 billion peak requests per second. The company also managed 2.45 million deployments and over 3 billion system-triggered firewall blocks. Top ecommerce brands such as Under Armour, Fanatics, and ASICS trust Vercel's Managed Infrastructure to handle the demand during this period. Vercel experienced a 99.9992% uptime throughout BFCM, ensuring that its customers could continue their operations without any issues. The company also saw an 80% growth in peak requests per second from BFCM 2023 to 2024.