"Failed to start the instance. Insufficient Capacity" error

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I tried starting a couple of my ec2 instances this morning on the us-east-1a zone and kept getting an error saying "Failed to start the instance. Insufficient Capacity". I was trying to start 1 instance at a time and a total of 7 instances. Each instance has 32 vcpu and 192GB RAM. I've been running ec2 instances for a couple years now and have never ran into this issue or seen it before. Is there something I can do so this doesn't happen again in the future?

asked 2 years ago2658 views
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Insufficient instance capacity covers the steps that you can take to address the error you can getting.

AWS
answered 2 years ago
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Occasionally, demand for certain instance types can be so high that AWS does not have sufficient capacity at the moment you request it. In that case, you have several options:

  1. Use a different instance type if you need immediate resources, and switch back to the preferred instance type later;
  2. Try launching the instance in a different Availability Zone;
  3. Wait a few seconds and retry;
  4. Consider purchasing Reserved Instances if you want the greatest likelihood that the specific instance type will be available to you in your preferred AZ when you request it.
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answered 2 years ago

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