Vercel expands Enterprise Apps and Agents with BYOC on AWS and Enterprise-Managed Authorization

Vercel is expanding its Enterprise Apps and Agents platform to address the rapid growth of AI adoption among non-developer "citizen developers." With enterprise token usage on AI Gateway quadrupling in the last three months and non-developer Codex users growing 189x, the platform now offers centralized governance for builders, apps, agents, tokens, and costs.

New Governance Capabilities

The expansion introduces two key features designed to balance accessibility with security:

• Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) on AWS: Now generally available, this allows application functions to execute within a customer's own AWS account, respecting existing security and network boundaries.
• Enterprise-Managed Authorization: Launching in public beta via Vercel Connect, this enables agents to access connected services on behalf of employees using their existing Identity Provider (IdP) credentials, eliminating separate authorization prompts.

Centralized Control and Security

The platform provides a single control plane for managing deployment, access, integration, and model governance. Key components include:

• Access Governance: Tools like Vercel Passport and Vercel Firewall ensure internal apps require authentication through the customer's IdP.
• Model and Token Governance: AI Gateway routes across hundreds of models with no markup, offering Zero Data Retention and US-only inference options. Customers can set budgets per person or project to manage costs.
• Observability: A unified Security Dashboard and Vercel Observability provide telemetry and risk flagging across all projects.

Customer Impact and Scale

Early adopters demonstrate significant efficiency gains:

• Klaviyo reduced internal app deployment time from two weeks to three minutes, with 512 employees deploying 356 apps in the first two weeks.
• Mercor processed 63 billion tokens in 10 days using AI Gateway, consolidating model access under a single expiring secret.
• Meta Superintelligence Labs used BYOC to ship a month's worth of work in their first week on Vercel.
• Vercel's own support agent, Vertex, now handles 91% of customer support cases autonomously.