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D1: an author reports a $3,500 bill in 48 hours and a full waiver.
@darylginn reports about $3,500 in D1 charges over 48 hours. He says an AI-assisted Postgres migration omitted indexes and caused about 970 billion row reads daily, and that Cloudflare waived the bill.
What happened
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- Incident date
- Date not recorded
- First reported
- 2026-07-29 09:15 UTC
Latest reported outcome
The author says Cloudflare waived the full D1 bill as a goodwill gesture.
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Author reports a waived bill
Read on 𝕏The author says Cloudflare waived an accidental $3.5k bill.
Daryl Ginn
@darylginn · Original 𝕏 post
Cloudflare are legit, they waived an accidental $3.5k bill for me.
Amount and 48-hour context
Read on 𝕏The author reports $3.5k of D1 charges in 48 hours and a full goodwill waiver.
Daryl Ginn
@darylginn · Original 𝕏 post
I don't really give props much, but I wanna shout out @cloudflare. A while ago I accidentally racked up $3.5k in D1 charges in only 48 hours through fault of my own. They completely waived it out of good will.
Migration and row-read explanation
Read on 𝕏The author says an AI-assisted Postgres-to-D1 migration omitted indexes, producing about 970 billion reads a day.
Daryl Ginn
@darylginn · Original 𝕏 post
I had AI migrate a postgres database to D1, but for some reason it chose not to create indexes, which is basically database 101. I was getting ~970 billion (yes, billion) row reads per day. The funny thing is if I had not used AI this would never have happened.
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