most probably, you host a Next.js to Vercel, calling third party DB API. i see many such posts here.

i just saw ur code, u r exposing .env, you want to remove it.

hmm

is deploying to vercel the problem then?

would it have the same problem if i deployed somewhere else?

Vercel officially recommends Vercel KV or Postgres. in case of self-hosted like AWS, it does not matter.

alright, thanks