Quotas and limits

This document lists the quotas and system limits that apply to Capacity Planner.

  • Quotas specify the amount of a countable, shared resource that you can use. Quotas are defined by Google Cloud services such as Capacity Planner.
  • System limits are fixed values that cannot be changed.

Google Cloud uses quotas to help ensure fairness and reduce spikes in resource use and availability. A quota restricts how much of a Google Cloud resource your Google Cloud project can use. Quotas apply to a range of resource types, including hardware, software, and network components. For example, quotas can restrict the number of API calls to a service, the number of load balancers used concurrently by your project, or the number of projects that you can create. Quotas protect the community of Google Cloud users by preventing the overloading of services. Quotas also help you to manage your own Google Cloud resources.

The Cloud Quotas system does the following:

  • Monitors your consumption of Google Cloud products and services
  • Restricts your consumption of those resources
  • Provides a way to request changes to the quota value

In most cases, when you attempt to consume more of a resource than its quota allows, the system blocks access to the resource, and the task that you're trying to perform fails.

Quotas generally apply at the Google Cloud project level. Your use of a resource in one project doesn't affect your available quota in another project. Within a Google Cloud project, quotas are shared across all applications and IP addresses.

There are also system limits on Capacity Planner resources. System limits can't be changed.

Allocation quotas

The following quotas don't reset over time and instead are released when you release the resource:

Quotas Value
Internal Load Balancer forwarding rules per VPC network 30

Request quotas

The following quotas apply to Capacity Planner requests:

Quota Value
Requests per second 10
Images per feature per day 700,000
Images per feature per month 20,000,000

Usage limits

Capacity Planner enforces the following usage limits:

Usage limit Value
MB per image 4 MB
MB per request 8 MB
Images per request 16

Request a quota increase

To increase or decrease quotas, select one of the following methods: