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Notes from the flare

Cloudflare spend, denial-of-wallet, and how a $5 bug turns into a $5,000 surprise. Written for the people who get paged at 3am, not the ones who read the monthly report.

· SignalFlare team

Cloudflare Still Has No Spending Limit. That's a $4,868 Problem.

A $5/month Cloudflare account ran up a $4,868 bill over one weekend when two buggy Workers wrote 4.8 billion rows to D1. People have asked for a hard spending cap since 2020, and there still isn't one. Here's why that gap exists, and the honest version of what an alert can and can't do about it.

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