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Ask HNs: Is GCP fully booked this thanksgiving?

by samfisher83 on 11/23/22, 10:09 PM with 4 comments

I am getting this error:

A e2-highcpu-2 VM instance is currently unavailable in the us-east4-c zone. Alternatively, you can try your request again with a different VM hardware configuration or at a later time. For more information, see the troubleshooting documentation.

You don't really get support from google on the cheaper machines. Is all of GCP being used for black friday stuff?

  • by kennethkeim on 11/29/22, 2:37 PM

    Some of my us-east4 App Engine instances (in multiple projects, some in production) went down in the past week. I haven't been able to restart any of them. One of our clients just happened to not be working today or yesterday. Now I have to move to a different region or they won't be going back to work tomorrow.

  • by rmoskal on 11/24/22, 2:13 PM

    I've been unable to launch a fairly beefy machine (e2-custom-8-18432) in us-east4-c since yesterday evening.

    I launch this machine via a schedule every day at 5pm.

    Recently moved it from us-east4-a, as i had been seeing the errors there.

    I've been using gcloud for a long time and until this month I've never had this error come up?

    I'm even willing to reserve an instance, but will this help?

  • by rmoskal on 11/24/22, 6:07 PM

    Hmm, I was able to launch a c2-standard-8 without any problems. The e2 instances still don't work. Maybe google is pushing us towards the more expensive SKUs!

    Happy Thanksgiving!

  • by xucian on 11/24/22, 9:58 PM

    having same problem here. could this be a good time to consider aws?..