This document explains how to create a capacity request in Capacity Planner to help ensure that your project has sufficient resources for unexpected growth. To learn more about the use cases for capacity requests, see instead About capacity requests.
Create a capacity request when you need best-effort capacity assurance for a future and time, but commit to pay only for the resources that you use.
Limitations
Before your assigned technical account manager (TAM) creates a capacity request on your behalf, consider the following:
After Google Cloud approves a capacity request, you can't modify or withdraw it.
You can't create capacity requests with matching resources. Instead, if Google Cloud hasn't approved a capacity request yet, contact your TAM to modify your existing request.
Before you begin
If you can't access Capacity Planner in the Google Cloud console, then your organization might not be eligible to access and use Capacity Planner. To request access, contact your TAM or the sales team.
Verify that you have sufficient quota for the resources that you want to request.
Required roles
You don't need any IAM roles or permissions to create capacity requests.
Create a capacity request through your TAM
To create a capacity request, follow these steps:
Review the properties that you can specify in a capacity request.
Contact your TAM and specify the project ID, location, and resources that you want to request. Your TAM creates the capacity request on your behalf, and submits it for review to Google Cloud.
Optional: To make changes to your request before Google Cloud approves it, contact your TAM.
After you create a capacity request, the request goes through different states as part of its lifecycle. Every time a request state changes, Google Cloud emails you. For more information about each state a capacity request can be set to, see Capacity request lifecycle.