[selckin]

no, they have very low quotas by default, and you have to request increases through the portal, which then get rejected and you click the button to contact support/email and then you sometimes have to negotiate with them

you have to do this for every single instance type they have, can't even experiment or test other instance types cause its too much trouble to get quota

[andrewstuart]

In the future it will be possible to use computers to figure out what’s available and automatically give it to customers.

21st century man…. it’s coming.

[salawat]

But who will determine when more computers are needed to figure out what's available to give to more customers because there's been a spike in demand?

Computers don't fix everything. They just allow you to f*ck up bigger, harder, and faster, usually in the most banal way imaginable.

[gtirloni]

The comment I replied to was not talking about changing quotas but actually creating instances.

> Yes it’s weird that you have to ask them for instances which some actual physical person looks at your request, thinks about it and says yes or no to.

[selckin]

well can't create an instance without having quota available

and low quota is low, like 10 cpu, so start a 2 node k8s cluster with 8cpu each? nope, go request quota increase