#usage

Amy Egan The team shipped an update yesterday so your dashboard now reflects each day's deployment storage amount more quickly. If you still need help reducing the amount of storage used, there are some optimization steps that can make a big difference. Linking those below. https://vercel.com/docs/deployment-storage/optimize

Amy Egan Hey there. I know this post is pretty old, but wanted to share some info in case it helps (hopefully you've already solved it). 3 million in seconds definitely doesn't seem like normal usage so that could be a DDoS attack. Whenever you see something like that happening, you can enable Attack Mode. It will challenge all visitors with a verification screen while allowing legitimate users through. It's free and requests blocked by it don't count toward your usage. You can also investigate traffic in your dashboard to see what's hitting your site. Look for patterns in user agents, IP addresses, or specific routes being targeted. For protection going forward, you can set up with spend limits and consider adding custom firewall rules to block specific bad actors. For spikes in legitimate traffic, there's also a new Flat Rate CDN option that gives you a fixed monthly price. It covers traffic spikes for CDN Requests, Fast Data Transfer, Blob Data Transfer, and Observability events generated by CDN requests to prevent surprise bills. https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-flat-rate-cdn

Amy Egan https://community.vercel.com/t/what-to-do-when-your-team-is-paused-or-blocked/45069

Amy Egan The support bot can help https://community.vercel.com/t/what-to-do-when-your-team-is-paused-or-blocked/45069

Amy Egan The support bot can help https://community.vercel.com/t/what-to-do-when-your-team-is-paused-or-blocked/45069

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Amy Egan Hey, James. Appreciate you reaching out about this. The team shipped an update yesterday so your dashboard now reflects each day's deployment storage amount instead of the billing period maximum. I'm linking some Deployment Storage optimization tips in case you still need help reducing the amount of storage used https://vercel.com/docs/deployment-storage/optimize

James Singleton Hi Amy. Yea after doing some Googling I was able to find stuff about it. It's a little concerning that this was pushed out without an email letting users know. All of a sudden I was getting emails saying that I was using 40 GB of the 10 GB of deployment storage with a single deployment taking up like 30 GB. I started to panic! One issue I ran into is that retention policies were defaulted to 30 days for everything. Even after setting some to 1 week and in some cases 1 day, I wasn't seeing deployments being removed. I had to go through and manually delete deployments. I basically had to delete all by 6 deployments for my major project with 5 of those being production deploys and one being a preview. I am down to 11 GB now out of 10... I was below 10 earlier today but then opening a PR to a repo pushed me up to 11 GB. So I have gone through and done what the docs say to do, yet it seemed that Vercel was not going and removing the old deploys after I saved the changes, even days after updating.

James Singleton To add to this, there are projects where the retention is 30 days and I have deployments from January still in my Deployments tab. This project was defaulted to 30 days and I have deployments from Jan-May still there.

Amy Egan The team shipped an update yesterday so your dashboard now reflects each day's deployment storage amount more quickly. If you still see high storage use at this point, I'm linking some optimization steps that can make a big difference. https://vercel.com/docs/deployment-storage/optimize

Swarnava Sengupta The deployment storage resets every 30 days, at the start of the next period. This means your new usage will not be reflected immediately.

Amy Egan Update: The team shipped an update yesterday so your dashboard now reflects each day's deployment storage amount more quickly. If you still see high storage use at this point, there are some optimization steps that can make a big difference. Linking those below. https://vercel.com/docs/deployment-storage/optimize

Amy Egan The team shipped an update yesterday so your dashboard now reflects each day's deployment storage amount more quickly. If you still see high storage use at this point, there are some optimization steps that can make a big difference. Linking those below. https://vercel.com/docs/deployment-storage/optimize

Swarnava Sengupta The deployment storage resets every 30 days, at the start of the next period. This means your new usage will not be reflected immediately.

Amy Egan The team shipped an update yesterday so your dashboard now reflects each day's deployment storage amount more quickly. If you still need help reducing the amount of storage used, there are some optimization steps that can make a big difference. Linking those below. https://vercel.com/docs/deployment-storage/optimize

system Thank you for bringing this to our attention. To ensure this is investigated with the necessary priority and privacy, please report all security-related concerns, potential exploits, or abuse directly to the Vercel Security Team. Please submit your report here: vercel.com/abuse Reporting via this official channel is the fastest way to reach our security engineers and ensures that sensitive information is handled in a secure environment rather than a public forum.