> One thing that surprised me is the price-- Cloudflare's cloud offerings are usually much cheaper ... This new offering is 3x the AWS price, though. Weird.

c. 2022 Cloudflare had a free email sending service (via MailChannels) [0] until it was sunset in Aug 2024 [1].

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/sending-email-from-workers-with-...

[1] https://support.mailchannels.com/hc/en-us/articles/456589835... / https://archive.vn/xNLzv