What Happened
Vercel experienced an outage on May 18, 2026. The incident lasted approximately 2 hours 10 minutes.
Frontend cloud platform for deploying web applications with automatic CI/CD, edge functions, and optimized hosting for Next.js and other frameworks.
Timeline
| Time (UTC) | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 15:17 | Monitoring | We have implemented a fix. New support cases can be created. We continue to monitor. |
| 15:00 | Investigating | We are investigating an issue where support cannot be submitted through the dashboard. |
| 22:19 | Monitoring | We are continuing to monitor for any further issues. |
| 22:16 | Monitoring | A fix is rolled out for the function invocation errors affecting React Router 7 deployments. To recover, redeploy your application or use Instant Rollback to a previous deployment from the dashboar... |
| 22:11 | Identified | We're continuing to work on rolling out a fix. In the mean time, customers may use Instant Rollback to a previous deployment version as an immediate workaround in order to recover. |
| 21:53 | Identified | The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented. |
| 21:42 | Investigating | We're investigating an issue where customers are currently experiencing application failures due to function invocation errors when using React Router 7. |
| 23:56 | Resolved | All systems operational |
Impact
The outage lasted approximately 2 hours 10 minutes. Vercel runs on AWS — check those status pages if you experienced cascading issues.
Resolution
Vercel has recovered and is now operational.
What To Do Next
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