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Requesting a service limit increase

Requesting a service limit increase - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

From the course: VPC Networking: Designing a Software Defined Data Center on AWS

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Requesting a service limit increase

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- [Instructor] You may be under the impression that once you sign up with an AWS account that you can create pretty well anything that you want, of any size and any quantity. That's actually not correct. There are soft limits that control what you can add to your account. Let's go take a look. Under Services let's go into EC2. Under EC2, on the left, let's select Limits. You can see at the start of this listing, there are limits for the number of instances that I can build, specifically in the northern Virginia region. There's a vast quantity of instances that we have to scroll through before we get to what we're looking for. Once we get through host limits, we'll come up with networking. What we're interested in is being able to create more than five VPCs. That's our current limit. That's our soft limit. So let's request a limit increase. I'm now going to talk to Support. I want a service limit increase and I have to go through and define what I'm working with. We'll pick VPC. We…

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