AWS or Vercel? Pinecone or pgvector? An opinionated walkthrough of the cloud architecture I reach for when shipping AI products at Safock — and what we swap when scale changes the math.
The 2026 AI-native cloud stack looks different than it did even a year ago. Here's how I'm deploying at Safock.
Vercel + Cloudflare Workers for the edge. AWS Fargate or GCP Cloud Run for the heavier work. Bare metal, almost never.
Postgres remains the default for relational. For vectors: pgvector at small scale, Pinecone or Qdrant at production scale. The decision usually comes down to operational overhead.
This is where most AI products fail silently. Logs, traces, evals — all visible from day one or you'll fly blind.