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EC2/EBS Hard Ceiling & Quota Diagnostic Troubleshooter (Part 5)

Use the interactive troubleshooter below to identify your EC2/EBS hard ceiling or quota symptom, review the raw evidence, understand the breach consequence, and note the limit.

🚨 Step 1: What specific error symptom are you experiencing?

Please click the most accurate description:


Quick Reference Table

#Service & ResourceThe NumberHard Ceiling or Adjustable?Breach ConsequenceVerbatim Source Sentence
1EC2 Fleet (Fleet Deletion)25 instant fleetsHard CeilingNo fleets are deleted and an error (ExceededInstantFleetNumForDeletion) is returned"You can delete up to 25 instant fleets in a single request. If you exceed this number, no instant fleets are deleted and an error is returned."
2Amazon EC2 (Elastic IP Addresses)5 Elastic IP addresses per RegionAdjustable DefaultAddressLimitExceeded exception occurs"AddressLimitExceeded: If your transfer account has exceeded the Elastic IP address quota..."
3Amazon EC2 (Instance Metadata Service v2)six hours (21,600 seconds)Hard Ceiling401 - Unauthorized HTTP error code"The PUT request must include a header that specifies the time to live (TTL) for the token, in seconds, up to a maximum of six hours (21,600 seconds)..."
4Amazon EC2 (Network MTU / Jumbo Frames)1500 bytesHard CeilingPackets are fragmented, or they are dropped if the Don't Fragment flag is set"If packets are over 1500 bytes, they are fragmented, or they are dropped if the Don't Fragment flag is set in the IP header."