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.