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Quotas and service limits

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This document covers quotas and limits for {{site.data.keyword.vpc_full}} and the resources available within it. {:shortdesc}

Quotas

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The following tables show the quotas for various VPC resources.

To increase a quota for a particular resource, contact support. {:note}

Virtual server instances

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Resource Quota
vCPU 200 per region
RAM 1600 GB per region
Floating IP addresses 20 per zone
SSH keys 200 per account
GPUs (POWER only) 16 per region
{: caption="Table 1. Quotas for virtual server instances" caption-side="top"}

Dedicated hosts (Beta)

{: #dedicated-host-quotas}

If you provision dedicated hosts, the vCPU associated with your dedicated hosts counts toward the total vCPU for virtual server instances per region. For more information, see Virtual server instances.

VPCs

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Resource Quota
Virtual private clouds 10 per region
Subnets 15 per VPC
Address prefixes 15 per VPC
{: caption="Table 2. Quotas for the VPC service" caption-side="top"}

Access control lists

{: #acl-quotas}

Resource Quota
ACLs 50 per VPC1
{: caption="Table 3. Quotas for access control lists" caption-side="top"}

1 You can use this quota for inbound rules, outbound rules, or both. For example, you might have 40 inbound rules and 10 outbound rules per ACL.

Security groups

{: #security-group-quotas}

Resource Quota
Security groups 25 per VPC
Rules 25 per security group
Remote rules 5 per security group
Network interfaces 5 per security group
{: caption="Table 4. Quotas for security groups" caption-side="top"}

Virtual private networks

{: #vpn-quotas}

Resource Quota
VPN gateways 9 per region, 3 per zone
VPN connections 10 per VPN gateway
IKE policies 20 per region
IPSec policies 20 per region
Peer subnets 50 across all connections of a VPN gateway, 15 per individual VPN connection
Local subnets 50 across all connections of a VPN gateway, 15 per individual VPN connection
{: caption="Table 5. Quotas for the VPN service" caption-side="top"}

Load balancers

{: #load-balancer-quotas}

Resource Quota
Load balancers 20 per region
Listeners 10 per load balancer
Pools 10 per load balancer
Members 50 per pool
{: caption="Table 6. Quotas for load balancers" caption-side="top"}

Block storage volumes

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Resource Quota
Boot and secondary volumes 300 total volumes per account in a region1
{: caption="Table 7. Quotas for block storage volumes" caption-side="top"}

1 You can request to increase the block storage volume limit by submitting an IBM Support case.

Service limits

The following table displays current VPC service limits. Unlike quotas, these limits can't be adjusted.

Resource Limit
VPCs with classic access 1 per region
Network interfaces 5 per instance
Public Gateways 1 per zone per VPC
Secondary volumes per instance, attached when creating an instance 4 secondary volumes
Secondary volumes per instance, for existing instances with fewer than 4 cores 4 secondary volumes
Secondary volumes per instance, for existing instances with 4 cores or more Up to 12 secondary volumes
Instance groups for auto scale and more 200 per account
{: caption="Table 8. Limits for VPC resources" caption-side="top"}