Re: Max spot instance count exceeded

From: Nik Krumm <no email>
Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 09:43:08 -0700

Hi Torstein,

You will need to email AWS support or use the linked form from here
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-spot-limits.html
and have them lift this restriction on your account.

The cap applies to all instances under one AWS account-- I would check if there are any orphaned nodes or clusters running via the console. If not, you are right to be suspicious, as I believe the default cap is 20. Also, I think there are two separate caps-- one for spot instances and one for regular instances (but I could be wrong about that).

cheers,
~Nik

On May 26, 2014, at 9:38 AM, Torstein Fjermestad wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> when trying to add two new nodes to my cluster, I get the following error message:
>
> >>> Launching node(s): node006, node007
> !!! ERROR - MaxSpotInstanceCountExceeded: Max spot instance count exceeded
>
> The message is fairly obvious, but I find it suspicious because currently my cluster only consists of one master node and four slave nodes.
>
> Is this really the maximum size of the cluster, or is the error message caused by something else?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Regards,
> Torstein Fjermestad
>
>
>
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Received on Mon May 26 2014 - 12:43:14 EDT