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This document lists the quotas and system limits that apply to
Batch.
Quotas specify the amount of a countable, shared resource that you
can use. Quotas are defined by Google Cloud services such as
Batch.
System limits are fixed values that cannot be changed.
Batch jobs run on Compute Engine resources,
so Batch is also subject to
Compute Engine quotas and limits. If your
Batch
job also uses other Google Cloud services, then it is subject to the
quotas for those services too. Attempts to exceed a quota or limit
return an error.
For more information, see the Cloud Quotas documentation.
In addition to the quotas and limits from other Google Cloud services,
Batch has the following quotas and limits, which cannot
be changed.
Rate quotas
The following limits apply to Batch requests. These limits
appear as quotas–for example, in the Google Cloud console–however, they can not be
increased.
Limit
Value
Agent requests per minute per region
30,000
Mutation requests per minute per region
6,000
Read requests per minute per region
15,000
Job limits
The following limits apply to Batch jobs.
Limit
Value
Tasks per task group
100,000
Parallel tasks per job
5,000
Concurrent VMs per single-zone job*
2,000
Concurrent VMs per multi-zone job*
4,000
Size of the job definition†
1 MB
Wait time (duration of QUEUED job state) before automatic failure
2 days
Run time (duration of RUNNING job state) before automatic failure
14 days
* The terms single-zone job and multi-zone job here
refer to the number of zones allowed for a job's VMs, which might be
different than the zones for a job's location. For more information, see
Batch locations.
† For example, roughly the size of the REST request to the
jobs.create method
or gcloud CLI --config file.
You can work around this limit by the dividing the tasks across multiple
jobs—for example, learn how to
schedule dependent jobs
(Preview).
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