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Workers and Queues: an author reports a jump from $5 to $2,145.
@goteap reports that a code loop generated over two billion internal requests and raised an invoice from $5 to $2,145. The author says a refund was not possible.
What happened
- Reported cause
- Unbounded loop
- Incident date
- Date not recorded
- First reported
- 2025-11-22 08:48 UTC
Latest reported outcome
The author says a refund was not possible.
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Loop and unexpected bill reported
Read on 𝕏The author says a code bug caused a permanent loop with over two billion internal requests, raising the invoice from $5 to $2,145. He says a refund was not possible.
Paul Gotea
@goteap · Original 𝕏 post
I was playing with Cloudflare Workers & Queues last week. Everything was super smooth. Suddenly our invoice got increased from $5 to $2145. A bug in the code caused a permanent loop making over 2B requests. 😵 No refund was possible even it was internal traffic only #cloudflare pic.twitter.com/mkmeNEvqjN
A colleague seeks a response
Read on 𝕏Alex tags CloudflareDev and CloudflareHelp in the thread.
Alex Minecan
@alexpagepilot · Original 𝕏 post
@CloudflareDev @CloudflareHelp
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