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AWS Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Service Limits

60 quotas for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). 41 can be increased.

QuotaDefaultStatus
Burst rate of cluster read actions (or bucket maximum capacity)

Burst rate of cluster read actions (or bucket maximum capacity)

storage
50
count
Adjustable
Burst rate of task protection actions (or bucket maximum capacity)

Burst rate of task protection actions (or bucket maximum capacity)

storage
200
count
Adjustable
Sustained rate of task protection actions (or bucket refill rate)

Sustained rate of task protection actions (or bucket refill rate)

storage
80
count
Adjustable
Sustained rate of cluster resource modify actions (or bucket refill rate)

Sustained rate of cluster resource modify actions (or bucket refill rate)

storage
40
count
Adjustable
Classic Load Balancers per service

Classic Load Balancers per service

general
1
count
Fixed
Capacity providers per cluster

Capacity providers per cluster

capacity
20
count
Fixed
Sustained rate of service deployment read actions (or bucket refill rate)

Sustained rate of service deployment read actions (or bucket refill rate)

storage
20
count
Adjustable
Sustained rate of tag read actions (or bucket refill rate)

Sustained rate of tag read actions (or bucket refill rate)

storage
20
count
Adjustable
Sustained rate of cluster modify actions (or bucket refill rate)

Sustained rate of cluster modify actions (or bucket refill rate)

storage
1
count
Adjustable
Services per namespace

Services per namespace

general
300
count
Fixed
Rate of tasks launched by a service on AWS Fargate

Rate of tasks launched by a service on AWS Fargate

throughput
500
count
Fixed
Target groups per service

Target groups per service

general
5
count
Fixed
Burst rate of cluster modify actions (or bucket maximum capacity)

Burst rate of cluster modify actions (or bucket maximum capacity)

storage
20
count
Adjustable
Sustained rate of service read actions (or bucket refill rate)

Sustained rate of service read actions (or bucket refill rate)

storage
20
count
Adjustable
Task definition size

Task definition size

storage
64
Kilobytes
Fixed
Burst rate of setting modify actions (or bucket maximum capacity)

Burst rate of setting modify actions (or bucket maximum capacity)

storage
10
count
Adjustable
Burst rate of service deployment read actions (or bucket maximum capacity)

Burst rate of service deployment read actions (or bucket maximum capacity)

storage
50
count
Adjustable
Tasks in PROVISIONING state per cluster

Tasks in PROVISIONING state per cluster

capacity
500
count
Fixed
Burst rate of service modify actions (or bucket maximum capacity)

Burst rate of service modify actions (or bucket maximum capacity)

storage
50
count
Adjustable
Burst rate of task definition read actions (or bucket maximum capacity)

Burst rate of task definition read actions (or bucket maximum capacity)

storage
50
count
Adjustable
Sustained rate of capacity provider modify actions (or bucket refill rate)

Sustained rate of capacity provider modify actions (or bucket refill rate)

storage
1
count
Adjustable
Sustained rate of cluster service resource read actions (or bucket refill rate)

Sustained rate of cluster service resource read actions (or bucket refill rate)

storage
1
count
Adjustable
Burst rate of capacity provider modify actions (or bucket maximum capacity)

Burst rate of capacity provider modify actions (or bucket maximum capacity)

storage
10
count
Adjustable
Services per cluster

Services per cluster

capacity
5,000
count
Fixed
Clusters per account

Clusters per account

capacity
10,000
count
Adjustable
Burst rate of service read actions (or bucket maximum capacity)

Burst rate of service read actions (or bucket maximum capacity)

storage
100
count
Adjustable
Sustained rate of task definition read actions (or bucket refill rate)

Sustained rate of task definition read actions (or bucket refill rate)

storage
20
count
Adjustable
Containers per task definition

Containers per task definition

general
10
count
Fixed
Sustained rate of service modify actions (or bucket refill rate)

Sustained rate of service modify actions (or bucket refill rate)

storage
5
count
Adjustable
Burst rate of cluster resource modify actions (or bucket maximum capacity)

Burst rate of cluster resource modify actions (or bucket maximum capacity)

storage
100
count
Adjustable
Burst rate of setting read actions (or bucket maximum capacity)

Burst rate of setting read actions (or bucket maximum capacity)

storage
50
count
Adjustable
Tags per resource

Tags per resource

general
50
count
Fixed
Revisions per task definition family

Revisions per task definition family

general
1,000,000
count
Fixed
Burst rate of cluster resource read actions (or bucket maximum capacity)

Burst rate of cluster resource read actions (or bucket maximum capacity)

storage
100
count
Adjustable
Burst rate of task definition deletion actions (or bucket maximum capacity)

Burst rate of task definition deletion actions (or bucket maximum capacity)

storage
5
count
Adjustable
Burst rate of task definition modify actions (or bucket maximum capacity)

Burst rate of task definition modify actions (or bucket maximum capacity)

storage
20
count
Adjustable
Sustained rate of agent modify actions (or bucket refill rate)

Sustained rate of agent modify actions (or bucket refill rate)

storage
120
count
Adjustable
Tasks per service

Tasks per service

general
5,000
count
Fixed
Sustained rate of task protection actions (or bucket refill rate)

Sustained rate of task protection actions (or bucket refill rate)

storage
80
count
Adjustable
Sustained rate of setting read actions (or bucket refill rate)

Sustained rate of setting read actions (or bucket refill rate)

storage
20
count
Adjustable
Sustained rate of cluster read actions (or bucket refill rate)

Sustained rate of cluster read actions (or bucket refill rate)

storage
20
count
Adjustable
Sustained rate of task definition deletion actions (or bucket refill rate)

Sustained rate of task definition deletion actions (or bucket refill rate)

storage
1
count
Adjustable
Burst rate of tag modify actions (or bucket maximum capacity)

Burst rate of tag modify actions (or bucket maximum capacity)

storage
20
count
Adjustable
Container instances per start-task

Container instances per start-task

capacity
10
count
Fixed
Burst rate of agent modify actions (or bucket maximum capacity)

Burst rate of agent modify actions (or bucket maximum capacity)

storage
200
count
Adjustable
Subnets per awsvpcConfiguration

Subnets per awsvpcConfiguration

networking
16
count
Fixed
Sustained rate of task definition modify actions (or bucket refill rate)

Sustained rate of task definition modify actions (or bucket refill rate)

storage
1
count
Adjustable
Tasks launched per run-task

Tasks launched per run-task

general
10
count
Fixed
Sustained rate of cluster resource read actions (or bucket refill rate)

Sustained rate of cluster resource read actions (or bucket refill rate)

storage
20
count
Adjustable
Sustained rate of setting modify actions (or bucket refill rate)

Sustained rate of setting modify actions (or bucket refill rate)

storage
1
count
Adjustable
Rate of tasks launched by a service on an Amazon EC2 or External instance

Rate of tasks launched by a service on an Amazon EC2 or External instance

throughput
500
count
Fixed
Burst rate of cluster service resource read actions (or bucket maximum capacity)

Burst rate of cluster service resource read actions (or bucket maximum capacity)

storage
10
count
Adjustable
ECS Exec sessions

ECS Exec sessions

general
1,000
count
Fixed
Security groups per awsvpcConfiguration

Security groups per awsvpcConfiguration

networking
5
count
Fixed
Burst rate of tag read actions (or bucket maximum capacity)

Burst rate of tag read actions (or bucket maximum capacity)

storage
50
count
Adjustable
Burst rate of task protection actions (or bucket maximum capacity)

Burst rate of task protection actions (or bucket maximum capacity)

storage
200
count
Adjustable
Burst rate of capacity provider read actions (or bucket maximum capacity)

Burst rate of capacity provider read actions (or bucket maximum capacity)

storage
50
count
Adjustable
Sustained rate of tag modify actions (or bucket refill rate)

Sustained rate of tag modify actions (or bucket refill rate)

storage
10
count
Adjustable
Sustained rate of capacity provider read actions (or bucket refill rate)

Sustained rate of capacity provider read actions (or bucket refill rate)

storage
20
count
Adjustable
Container instances per cluster

Container instances per cluster

capacity
5,000
count
Fixed

How to Request a Quota Increase

  1. 1Open the AWS Service Quotas console.
  2. 2Select Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) from the service list.
  3. 3Find the quota and click "Request increase".
  4. 4Enter the desired value and submit. Most increases are approved within a few hours.

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Quick Stats

Total Quotas60
Adjustable41
Fixed19
Commonly Hit0