What are service quotas on AWS? How can they become a barrier in scaling your application?

We live in a time where anyone can learn a few DevOps skills that enable them to provision infrastructure within minutes and scale applications with ease. Dynamic scaling is a pinnacle of cloud-native architecture and is critical to keeping applications highly available and reducing undesired latency.

With great power though, comes an even greater responsibility. AWS stands as a pillar in the cloud computing ecosystem, holding almost a third of the market share for service providers. AWS enables any organization to adequately provision and scale their applications with relative ease on their platform.

Yet, despite its extensive capabilities, AWS’s ability to scale your application’s infrastructure is not without limits. Understanding these limitations is critical for engineers and organizations seeking to harness the full potential of the cloud while avoiding pitfalls.