[samstave]

All AWS accounts have a "limits" which have the default limits as to how many instances that you could launch in that region.

The reason is so if you fuck up a scaling script for example you can't launch 1000 machines and take all the capacity and then bitch that you won't pay for it.

It's a stop gap.

However, aside from the hard limit of 100 S3 buckets, all other limits are configurable at the request of your AWS rep

[geofft]

It looks like that hard limit became a soft limit in August:

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2015/08/amazon-s3...

[samstave]

Hmm... I didn't know this. The last time I asked they said it would never happen. I was told the original reason was that all buckets had to have a unique name

[admiun]

I thought that too but I successfully raised our limit after they made it a soft limit, so give it a shot!