Instance Limit Exceeded

  • Instance Limit Exceeded error comes if launching a new instance or restarting a stopped instance.
  • It is shown if reached the limit on the number of instances that you can launch in a region.
  • Request an instance limit increase on a per-region basis.

Insufficient Instance Capacity

  • InsufficientInstanceCapacity error comes if launching a new instance or restarting a stopped instance.
  • AWS does not currently have enough available On-Demand capacity to service the request.
  • Resolve by
    • Resubmit after waiting a few minutes
    • Submit request with a reduced number of instances.
    • submit a new request without specifying an Availability Zone.
    • submit a new request using a different instance type
    • Try creating an On-Demand Capacity Reservation,
    • Try purchasing Reserved Instances

Instance Terminates Immediately –

  • Your instance goes from the pending state to the terminated state immediately after restarting it.
  • Reasons
    • Reached EBS volume limit.
    • An EBS snapshot is corrupt.
    • The root EBS volume is encrypted and do not have permissions to access the KMS key for decryption.
  • Solution – use the Amazon EC2 console as
    • Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.
    • In the navigation pane, choose Instances, and select the instance.
    • In the Description tab, note the reason next to the State transition reason label.

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