Ep213: Prompt to Production - AWS Database Integration in Vercel

Learn how Vercel's "self-driving infrastructure" vision pairs with AWS databases to eliminate backend friction, securely cutting Aurora Serverless creation time from minutes to seconds.

Topics Include:

• Hedieh Zandi (Vercel) and Manbeen Kohli (AWS) introduce prompt-to-production session
• Vercel powers 18 million developers, maintains Next.js and AI SDK
• Vercel's agentic infrastructure runs on AWS Lambda, CloudFront, and S3
• AI now generates frontend, APIs, and workflows for small teams
• Backend friction remains: credentials, provisioning, database configuration still hard
• Vercel envisions "self-driving infrastructure" that adapts automatically to apps
• New AWS partnership brings native Aurora DSQL and Postgres integration
• Manbeen explains databases now built into Vercel Marketplace and v0
• Aurora Serverless database creation sped up from minutes to seconds
• Aurora Postgres, DynamoDB, and DSQL scale prototypes without rewrites
• Pre-configured templates help builders start RAG or shopping AI apps
• Database security uses OIDC and IAM tokens, no stored passwords
• AWS chosen for agents: low latency, autonomy, one-click simplicity
• skills.sh gives agents reusable instructions, mirrors AWS Kiro's "powers"
• v0 lets users build full-stack apps using natural language prompts
• v0 uses Bedrock models and deploys directly on Vercel infrastructure
• Live demo: v0 builds restaurant app, provisions database, adds Stripe checkout
• Demo ends at AWS console; Rauch quote and hackathon close session

Participants:

• Hedieh Zandi - Product Lead, Vercel
• Manbeen Kohli - Director of Product Management, Aurora and RDS Databases, Amazon Web Services  

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