<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Torstein,<div><br></div><div>You will need to email AWS support or use the linked form from here</div><div><a href="http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-spot-limits.html">http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-spot-limits.html</a></div><div>and have them lift this restriction on your account. </div><div><br></div><div>The cap applies to all instances under one AWS account-- I would check if there are any orphaned nodes or clusters running via the console. If not, you are right to be suspicious, as I believe the default cap is 20. Also, I think there are two separate caps-- one for spot instances and one for regular instances (but I could be wrong about that).</div><div><br></div><div>cheers,</div><div>~Nik</div><div><br><div><div>On May 26, 2014, at 9:38 AM, Torstein Fjermestad wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>Dear all,<br><br></div>when trying to add two new nodes to my cluster, I get the following error message:<br><br>>>> Launching node(s): node006, node007<br>!!! ERROR - MaxSpotInstanceCountExceeded: Max spot instance count exceeded<br>
<br></div>The message is fairly obvious, but I find it suspicious because currently my cluster only consists of one master node and four slave nodes. <br><br></div>Is this really the maximum size of the cluster, or is the error message caused by something else?<br>
<br></div>Thanks in advance for your help.<br><br></div>Regards,<br></div>Torstein Fjermestad<br><br><div><div><div><br><br></div></div></div></div>
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