AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate — Question 422

A company is expanding its fleet of Amazon EC2 instances before an expected increase of traffic. When a SysOps administrator attempts to add more instances, an InstanceLimitExceeded error is returned.
What should the SysOps administrator do to resolve this error?

Answer options

• A. Add an additional CIDR block to the VPC.
• B. Launch the EC2 instances in a different Availability Zone.
• C. Launch new EC2 instances in another VPC.
• D. Use Service Quotas to request an EC2 quota increase.

Correct answer: D

Explanation

The InstanceLimitExceeded error occurs because the AWS account has reached its regional limit for running EC2 instances of that specific instance type. To resolve this, the SysOps administrator must request a quota increase through AWS Service Quotas. Changing Availability Zones, adding CIDR blocks, or launching instances in a different VPC will not resolve this regional, account-level constraint.