[jesseryoung]

Ran into a similar issue last year in the East US region. We contracted support and they gave a similar response. From my understanding talking to people who use AWS and GCP this isn't uncommon across cloud platforms.

While we could've just swapped a deployment parameter to deploy to another region, we opted to just use a different SKU of VMs for a short period and switch back to the VMs when they were available again.

We haven't seen issues since.

[wstuartcl]

yeah AWS tends to have capacity issues during high volume periods like black Friday (I think this is now actually because most large users pre reserve a buffer pool of vms sitting unused) -- but I have never had an issue where AWS has told me there would be no capacity for months. Its usually swapping AZ or regions or being slightly flexible on your sku. And if you are sensitive to this and find it happening take a look at your sku loadout you may be choosing a very high demand vm type and shifting just slightly gets way more capacity.

^^ and by capacity I am talking like 10's or 100s of vms being available not 1.