Is Rate Limiting Necessary for Cloudflare Workers?

Developers Workers
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Hi Community,

I was wondering if Cloudflare Workers has any built-in rate limiting protection against attacks, or if the extra $5/Million/Requests is necessary. I just want to make sure that activating it wouldn’t be redundant.

Thanks!

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Depends on what you use it for, but sure, if someone knows that you’re on workers and are ■■■■-bent on making your life a misery, then they could certainly do that. But this can be done to basically and cloud or server.

If it’s security related or if you’re writing a lot to the KV, then rate-limiting is very recommended.

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Not that I know off. Pay the $5, KV alone is worth it.

It’s $5 for all your sites, not just one.

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Thanks @thomas4 - at $5/Million it makes it the most expensive thing in my infrastructure stack (especially as CF Workers is just $0.50/Million) - but as Workers by itself has no built-in rate limiting I’ll definitely have to enable it.

@lionel - I’m currently not planning on using KV but yeah it’s definitely worth it for the other services I write to.