API Gateway throttling discrepancy

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Hi AWS Community,

I am experiencing a discrepancy in the throttling limits for my API Gateway and I need some assistance in understanding and resolving this issue.

In the AWS Service Quotas section, my applied account-level quota values for the throttle burst rate and throttle rate are as follows:
- Throttle Burst Rate: 5,000 requests per second (RPS)
- Throttle Rate: 10,000 RPS

However, when I check the throttling settings in the API Gateway console, it shows:
- Throttle Rate: 2,500 RPS
- Burst Limit: 1,250 RPS

Throttling Info
Account-level throttling
Your current account-level throttling rate is 2500 requests per second with a burst of 1250 requests.

Could someone please help me understand why there is a difference between the Service Quotas and the API Gateway console settings? How can I resolve this to ensure my application can handle the expected load without encountering throttling errors?

My region is ap-southeast-3.

Thank you for your assistance!

Best regards,

qinyang.wang · Accepted Answer

Hello,

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In the AWS Service Quotas section, my applied account-level quota values for the throttle burst rate and throttle rate are as follows:

Throttle Burst Rate: 5,000 requests per second (RPS)
Throttle Rate: 10,000 RPS
However, when I check the throttling settings in the API Gateway console, it shows:

Throttle Rate: 2,500 RPS
Burst Limit: 1,250 RPS
```

This is because of your region.

According to [API Gateway account-level quotas, per Region](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/latest/developerguide/limits.html#apigateway-account-level-limits-table), you can see that:

> For the following Regions, the default throttle quota is 2500 RPS and the default burst quota is 1250 RPS: Africa (Cape Town), Europe (Milan), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Middle East (UAE), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Israel (Tel Aviv), and Canada West (Calgary).

API Gateway throttling discrepancy

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