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by ignoramous 2157 days ago
One of the main challenges of building on Serverless platforms is rate-limiting.

There's nothing stopping a script-kiddie from thundering away at the Serverless endpoint resulting in an unexpected and quite high billables [0].

As for Workers specifically, Cloudflare's rate-limiting plan makes the whole thing 10x expensive at $10 for 2,000,000 good-requests [1] + $1 for 2,000,000 Workers requests. Other cloud providers I don't think fare any different.

[0] https://community.cloudflare.com/t/how-to-protect-cloudflare...

[1] https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/11500027224...