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 & Resource | The Number | Hard Ceiling or Adjustable? | Breach Consequence | Verbatim Source Sentence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | EC2 Fleet (Fleet Deletion) | 25 instant fleets | Hard Ceiling | No 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." |
| 2 | Amazon EC2 (Elastic IP Addresses) | 5 Elastic IP addresses per Region | Adjustable Default | AddressLimitExceeded exception occurs | "AddressLimitExceeded: If your transfer account has exceeded the Elastic IP address quota..." |
| 3 | Amazon EC2 (Instance Metadata Service v2) | six hours (21,600 seconds) | Hard Ceiling | 401 - 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)..." |
| 4 | Amazon EC2 (Network MTU / Jumbo Frames) | 1500 bytes | Hard Ceiling | Packets 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." |