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Level 4: Reliability, security & cloud · L4.6 AWS architecture decisions (SAA-C03)

Service quotas: sizing the standby Region before you need it

Configure service quotas for a standby environment so failover can reach production size, tell a quota from capacity and from throttling, and choose how to monitor quotas across accounts.

13 min · Pro

What you take away

  • Quotas are per account and per Region; a standby Region keeps its own, often much lower, applied values until you raise them.

And 3 more inside the class, in Pro.

How the class is laid out

  1. The problem
  2. The simple version
  3. Quotas follow the account and the Region
  4. The standby rule
  5. Watching quotas before they bite
  6. Quota or throttle?
  7. Check your understanding