Vercel WAF for Blob is now in beta
The Vercel WAF can now protect a Vercel Blob store. The same rules that guard your deployments (deny, challenge, rate limit) now apply to blob traffic with no changes to your code, blob URLs, or @vercel/blob. Protect a Blob store from its settings, no code changes required.Every blob is already served through Vercel's CDN, so protection is a switch on the store, not a new proxy.
- ▪The Vercel WAF can now protect a Vercel Blob store.
- ▪The same rules that guard your deployments (deny, challenge, rate limit) now apply to blob traffic with no changes to your code, blob URLs, or @vercel/blob.
- ▪Protect a Blob store from its settings, no code changes required.Every blob is already served through Vercel's CDN, so protection is a switch on the store, not a new proxy.
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The Vercel WAF can now protect a Vercel Blob store. The same rules that guard your deployments (deny, challenge, rate limit) now apply to blob traffic with no changes to your code, blob URLs, or @vercel/blob. Protect a Blob store from its settings, no code changes required.Every blob is already served through Vercel's CDN, so protection is a switch on the store, not a new proxy. Stop scrapers, geo-restrict downloads, rate limit expensive assets, or block abusive IPs before a byte is served.Rules evaluate at the edge, matching on IP, country, path, and more:Deny returns a 403 and stops the request early, so no data transfer is incurred.Challenge serves the standard browser challenge, and a request that fails it is blocked.Rate limit returns a 429 when a client exceeds your limit.Redirect…
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