Optimizing secure build infrastructure with Secure Compute

This post details the integration of Vercel's Secure Compute with its internal build compute platform, Hive. It explains the key components: EC2 instances as connectors using WireGuard for encrypted tunnels, a Key Exchange Service for managing keys and routing, and network routing via namespaces and CNI plugins. The post highlights the performance improvements achieved, reducing provisioning time from 90 seconds to 5 seconds and increasing build performance by 30% compared to the previous Fargate-based approach. It also describes the secure traffic flow and the process of starting a new Secure Compute build.