Vercel Announces General Availability of Python Support and Vercel Drives
Vercel has officially moved Python support to general availability, enabling deployment of FastAPI, Flask, and Django applications. Additionally, Vercel Drives is now generally available for Sandbox, providing persistent workspaces for agents.
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Full-stack developers, AI agent engineers, and enterprise infrastructure teams.
These updates transition Vercel from a frontend-focused platform to a comprehensive agentic infrastructure provider, allowing for backend-heavy Python applications and persistent stateful agent execution.
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Vercel has expanded its runtime capabilities by moving Python support from beta to general availability, allowing developers to deploy Python-based frameworks like FastAPI, Flask, and Django using standard CPython and PyPI dependencies. Alongside this, Vercel Drives has reached general availability for Sandbox environments, allowing agentic workflows to maintain persistent code, data, and memory across different compute sessions. Furthermore, Vercel introduced Vercel Daemons in public beta for background worker processes and launched Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) on AWS into general availability for enterprise users.