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Cloudflare Developers•3y ago•
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xzilja

Can cloudflare's api gateway be used to rate-limit workers api?

I'm wrapping up development of my api on top of Cloudflare's workers and am about to start setting up rate-limitting. Initially wanted to do this via serverles redis, but it looks like WAF https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/ achieves the same. But I cant manage to find this setting under my workers page. I believe it is only available for domains?

Am I correct in assuming that in order to limit my workers routes, I can only do so when custom domain is set up for it?
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