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Problem launching instance of EC2 server for GPU intensive applications.

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Greetings, I'm trying to set up launching an instance in EC2 g5 and I keep getting an error saying I don't have the number of permissions for vcpu's. When I contacted support for an increase in authorization, they declined and said it could incur large fees. I want to be able to use the on-demand g5 cloud computing for pixel streaming Unreal Engine 5 to my business clients. How do I utilize the AWS services for this? Maybe I am missing something or using the incorrect instance setup?

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High Performance ComputeAmazon EC2AWS Account Management
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rePost-User-8632709-Mary
asked a year ago778 views
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Hi,

Can you share the exact error message you are receiving?

Reason I ask this is for the following reasons:

  1. You might genuinely not have the permissions
  2. Your account might still be to new to launch large instance types and you might need to opt for a smaller instance.

What you can do is check what you can launch by navigating to service quotas, see link to check on how to do this. See my example below to see howmuch G-instances I can launch and available vCPU limit:

  1. Navigate to service quotas (Top right, under account ID)

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  1. Select Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to view quotas for EC2

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  1. Select the All G and VT Spot Instance Requests to view howmuch G type instances you can launch

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So based on the quota above the account is able to launch G-type instances with a limit of 64 vCPUs this can be:

  • 1x g4dn.16xlarge

  • 2x g4dn.8xlarge

  • 4x g4dn.4xlarge

And so forth, now important to note that each account will have its own set of assigned quotas and these values will be regional especially when it comes to large instance types. I would suggest you check what your current quota is set too, if your account is still new as mentioned above you will require a special approvals to launch certain instance types.

You can review this link: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-iu7szlwdt5clg to get an idea of the overall hourly spend for unreal on G5, from the marketplace link it looks like your cheapest option will be

g4dn.2xlarge	$0	$1.12 [hourly] in us-east-1

Hope this helps, feel free to reach back with the error code and I'll advise accordingly.

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Lundi
answered a year ago
  • rePost-User-8632709-Mary
    a year ago

    Thank you so much for your detailed answer! I checked the service quotas and indeed I have 0 for the g and vt instances. How do I go about getting the permissions? I have 1k credit from game jam with unreal and we wanted to use some of it to get an instance for a bit to host an in-development project for our business partner to check out.

  • rePost-User-8632709-Mary
    a year ago

    When I asked for an increase they said no via support. Are there other EC2 instances that I could use that would at least work for now?

  • rePost-User-8632709-Mary
    a year ago

    After fiddling with it, I launched a large T3 instance and will see if it will work for our pixel streaming. Hopefully, it will work for us! Thanks again for your answer

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