Ask HN: When and why did AWS decrease Spot limit from 100 to 5 per region?

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12 years ago

According to AWS' FAQ: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#How_many_instances_can_I_run_in_Amazon_EC2

The limit of Spot instances is now 5 per region, which sounds incredibly low.

Quotes from an older version of the FAQ and answers on StackOverflow/Quora says AWS did limit to 100 Spot instances until recently.

" You are limited to running 20 On-Demand or Reserved Instances, and running 100 Spot Instances per region. [...]"

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