Troubleshooting: Too Many VPCs

Each Amazon Web Services (AWS) account has a default quota for the amount of services you can run at a single time. The limts are on a per-service basis, and in many cases, also by region.

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) default quotas are 5 per region - the same as the number of Internet Gateways. If you already have 5 VPCs in one of the AWS regions, you will get the following error:

Showing the AWS too many VPCs deployment error in the Flightcontrol dashboard

Solution

If you do see the above error, you need to request an increase from AWS Customer Support, remove a running VPC, or use a different AWS region.

Request an increase for VPCs per region (make sure console is set to correct region)
Request an increase for Internet Gateways per region (make sure console is set to correct region)

These customer support requests do take time to process on the AWS side, and are not instantaneous.

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