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\"Spot<\/a>Amazon has announced<\/a> that accounts created after December, 2013 have an undetermined limit on the number of spot instances that can be created.<\/p>\n

“By default, you are limited to a total of 5 Spot Instance requests in a region. New AWS accounts might have lower limits.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This has created a lot of confusion with RedLine customers since new Amazon accounts seem to be set to a default mostly of 0. \u00a0And existing customers that used to spin up dozens of spot instances are no longer allowed to. And there appears to not be a consistent pattern to the quantity and region limits. You can see other customer confusion here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a> to name a few.<\/p>\n

We have been in lively debate with Amazon support and trying to get the attention of the spot instance product manager. It appears there is not going to be a change in this policy. We have requested things like an API to enable us to see how many spot instances and in what regions an account can be created.<\/p>\n

RedLine will be making a switch to use On Demand instances as a default. You will still be able to use spot instances if your account is enabled up to the limit that Amazon sets for your account.<\/p>\n

You can create a request for an increase in spot instances by going creating a support request like the one below. You will have to make a separate request for each instance type and for each region. Please let your Amazon account rep and support rep know this is a problem that should be addressed.<\/p>\n

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