Cloudflare launches Workers Unbound, next evolution of its serverless platform
The private beta sign up form is here for ones interested in Workers Unbound: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cloudflare.com&#x2F;workers-unbound-beta&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cloudflare.com&#x2F;workers-unbound-beta&#x2F;</a> (disable adblockers to see the form). One key thing that sticks out is Cloudflare would charge for outgoing bandwidth at $0.09 per GB, a stark departure from unlimited bandwidth stance they&#x27;re known for, especially wrt Workers Bundled [0].<p>A few questions, if anyone from Cloudflare is here:<p>0. Can we expect in Workers Unbound support for Websockets, WebRTC, HTTP Connect, and Server Sent Events?<p>1. Would there be support for protocols other than HTTP? Say, a raw TCP &#x2F; UDP connection that is handed off by Spectrum to a Worker [1] (Spectrum here is redundant?)?<p>2. Inability to rate limit Workers in a cost effective way gives me sleepless nights [2]. The current rate limiting plans are too expensive when compared to Workers, almost 10x if expected <i>good requests</i> are to the tune of 10 million [3] (in my case good requests have potential to be much much higher). Any announcements due in this space?<p>3. Will the same isolate (Unbounded Worker), if kept running for long, be able to handle multiple connections&#x2F;requests concurrently, or would each HTTP connection create a new isolate (that is, a new Unbounded Worker instance)?<p>Thanks.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20791660" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20791660</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21921821" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21921821</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.cloudflare.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;how-to-protect-cloudflare-worker-from-ddos&#x2F;179017" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.cloudflare.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;how-to-protect-cloudflare...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.cloudflare.com&#x2F;hc&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;articles&#x2F;115000272247" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.cloudflare.com&#x2F;hc&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;articles&#x2F;11500027224...</a>