Service Quotas
Key Points
- Defines the limit on how many of AWS services can run
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Each service has a default per-region quota
- some services can be per account
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Most service quotas can be increased as needed
- some services quota cannot be changed like 5000 IAM user/account
- for IAM users > use identity provider
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Higher increases results in more process and time needed
Important Links
- Service endpoints and quotas
- Service Quotas Console - also request change for quotas
- Service Quotas request templates - can be applied for accoutns in AWS organizations (reduced )
- AWS cli for service quotas
- Service Quotas and Amazon CloudWatch alarms