How do I increase my Elastic IP address quota in Amazon EC2?

Short description

By default, AWS accounts have a quota of five Elastic IP addresses in each AWS Region. If you exceed this quota, then you receive the following error message:

"Elastic IP address could not be allocated. The maximum number of addresses has been reached."

To allocate additional Elastic IP addresses, request a quota increase.

Resolution

Note: Each Region has its own quota. If you increase the quota in one Region, then the quota in other Regions doesn't change. If you have resources across multiple Regions and require Elastic IP addresses in each Region, then submit separate quota requests for each Region.

Request a quota increase

Complete the following steps:

1. Open the Service Quotas console.
2. In the navigation bar, select the Region where you want to allocate more Elastic IP addresses.
3. In the navigation pane, choose AWS services.
4. In the search box, enter EC2 or Elastic Compute Cloud, and then press Enter.
5. Choose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).
6. Under Quotas, select EC2-VPC Elastic IPs.
7. Choose Request quota increase.
8. For Change quota value, enter your new quota value.
9. Choose Request.

Check the status of your quota increase request

Complete the following steps:

1. Open the Service Quotas console.
2. In the navigation pane, choose Quota request history.
3. In the search box, enter EC2-VPC Elastic IPs.
4. View the status of your request.

If the status is Pending, then the quota request is still under review. If the status is Approved, then you can immediately allocate the additional Elastic IP addresses in the Region that you requested.