AWS Request Rate

Matt Bruzek matthew.bruzek at canonical.com
Thu Feb 20 15:36:15 UTC 2014


Hello David,

When I first read your email, it reminded me of a bug (
https://bugs.launchpad.net/juju-core/+bug/1279879 ) that I opened where I
got the error message: "Maximum number of attempts (3) reached sending
request..."  but upon further review your problem appears to be a different
issue.

- Matt



On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 9:02 AM, David Britton
<david.britton at canonical.com>wrote:

> Hi Juju Folks --
>
> I've been getting this from time to time:
>
>   "2":
>       agent-state-info: '(error: cannot set up groups: Request limit
> exceeded. (RequestLimitExceeded))'
>       instance-id: pending
>       series: precise
>
> Which lead me to this:
>
>
> http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/api-error-codes.html
>
> Which says this:
>
>   Amazon EC2 API requests are throttled to help maintain the performance
>   of the service. If your requests have been throttled, you'll get the
>   following error: Client.RequestLimitExceeded. For more information, see
>   Query API Request Rate in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.
>
>
> Some questions:
>
> 1) Is there something I can do to prevent this?  I'm deploying a stack
> with juju-deployer.
>
> 2) When it happens, it seems that juju is dead in the water on that
> operation (in this case launching an instnace).  Should it instead
> throttle back and keep trying?  I have to terminate-machine,
> destroy-service, and re-run deployer (which thankfully picks up where it
> left off).  Is that expected behavior for the juju system?
>
> 3) This is a shared Amazon account, is this requestLimit across all of
> the people that have api credentials, or just me?
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> David Britton <david.britton at canonical.com>
>
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   - Matt
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