We announced an increase in the rate limits for the Spike Arrest policy

## Announcement On April 2, 2024, we announced an increase in the rate limits for the [Spike Arrest](https://cloud.google.com/apigee/docs/api-platform/reference/policies/spike-arrest-policy) policy. The limit on the rate you can specify increased from 1,000 requests per second, 60,000 requests per minute to 4,000 requests per second, 240,000 requests per minute. See the [Spike Arrest section of the Limits page](https://cloud.google.com/apigee/docs/api-platform/reference/limits#spikearrest) for information on Spike Arrest limits.