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Hi - when we cancel a flow from Prefect Cloud it appears the jobs/tasks within continue to run. Are we misunderstanding something here?

Hi Arlo - unfortunately we learned this feature wasn’t working as expected and so we are currently in the process of redesigning it.  Right now “cancelling” a flow run is purely a bookkeeping action and does not tear down the flow run itself - apologies for the confusion

So <@UKNSNMUE6> - in practice, a `cancellation` doesn’t really do anything other than mark as cancelled in the UI. I.e. anything the flow/tasks within were doing can be assumed to be still going?

That is correct as of today; we do have planned work to address this but I don’t expect it to be out for a bit