generated: '2026-09-17'
method: searched
source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/lightsail.html (service quotas table, fetched 2026-09-17
  HTTP 200) and https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lightsail/2016-11-28/api-reference/CommonErrors.html (throttling
  response, fetched 2026-09-17 HTTP 200)
provider: Amazon Lightsail
providerId: amazon-lightsail
note: 'Two different things are usually collapsed into ''rate limits'' and Lightsail publishes only one of
  them. There is NO published request-rate limit: AWS documents no requests-per-second figure, no burst, no
  window and no RateLimit-* or X-RateLimit-* response headers for Lightsail, and the API returns no such header
  on an unauthenticated probe. The only runtime throttling signal is the error itself — a ThrottlingException
  carrying HTTP status 400, NOT 429, which is the detail most likely to break a generic retry handler, since
  a 400 normally means ''do not retry''. AWS SDKs special-case it and retry with exponential backoff. What
  Lightsail DOES publish, and publishes well, is 34 resource service quotas — per-Region, per-account ceilings
  on how many instances, disks, distributions and so on an account may hold. Two of them are adjustable through
  the Service Quotas console. Those are recorded below as quotas, not as rate limits, because an agent pacing
  its calls cannot use them.'
limit_count: 0
limits: []
throttling:
  documented_rate_limit: false
  error_type: ThrottlingException
  status_code: 400
  status_note: Lightsail returns HTTP 400 on throttling, not 429.
  retry_after_header: null
  rate_limit_headers: []
  headers_note: No RateLimit-*, X-RateLimit-* or Retry-After header is documented or observed.
  client_behavior: The AWS SDKs automatically retry a ThrottlingException with exponential backoff and jitter.
  source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lightsail/2016-11-28/api-reference/CommonErrors.html
quota_count: 34
quotas_note: Resource ceilings, not request pacing. "Each supported Region" means the quota applies independently
  in every AWS Region the account uses. New AWS accounts may start below these defaults.
quotas_source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/lightsail.html
quotas:
- name: Allowed cookies per cache behavior for a distribution
  default: '10'
  scope: per AWS Region, per account
  adjustable: false
  description: The maximum number of allowed cookies per cache behavior.
- name: Allowed headers per cache behavior for a distribution
  default: '10'
  scope: per AWS Region, per account
  adjustable: false
  description: The maximum number of allowed headers per cache behavior.
- name: Allowed query strings per cache behavior for a distribution
  default: '10'
  scope: per AWS Region, per account
  adjustable: false
  description: The maximum number of allowed query strings per cache behavior.
- name: Block storage disks per instance
  default: '15'
  scope: per AWS Region, per account
  adjustable: false
  description: The maximum number of block storage disks that can be attached per instance.
- name: Container service certificates
  default: '4'
  scope: per AWS Region, per account
  adjustable: false
  description: The maximum number of certificates that can be attached per container service.
- name: Container service custom domains
  default: '4'
  scope: per AWS Region, per account
  adjustable: false
  description: The maximum number of custom domains per container service.
- name: Container service deployment containers
  default: '10'
  scope: per AWS Region, per account
  adjustable: false
  description: The maximum number of containers per deployment on a container service.
- name: Container service deployment versions
  default: '50'
  scope: per AWS Region, per account
  adjustable: false
  description: The maximum number of deployment versions per container service.
- name: Container service logs storage days
  default: '4'
  scope: per AWS Region, per account
  adjustable: false
  description: The maximum number of days that container service logs are stored.
- name: Container service nodes
  default: '20'
  scope: per AWS Region, per account
  adjustable: false
  description: The maximum number of nodes per container service.
- name: Container service stored container images
  default: '150'
  scope: per AWS Region, per account
  adjustable: false
  description: The maximum number of stored container images per container service.
- name: Container services
  default: '100'
  scope: per AWS Region, per account
  adjustable: false
  description: The maximum number of container services per region.
- name: Custom domain names per distribution
  default: '10'
  scope: per AWS Region, per account
  adjustable: false
  description: The maximum number of custom domain names per distribution. You can specify up to 10 domains
    for a Lightsail SSL/TLS certificate. You can then use the certificate to enable custom domains on your
    Lightsail distribution.
- name: DNS zones (or domains)
  default: '6'
  scope: per AWS Region, per account
  adjustable: false
  description: The maximum number of DNS zones (or domains) per account.
- name: Data transfer rate per distribution
  default: '150'
  scope: per AWS Region, per account
  adjustable: false
  description: The maximum data transfer rate (in GB per second) per distribution.
- name: Databases
  default: '40'
  scope: per AWS Region, per account
  adjustable: false
  description: The maximum number of databases per region.
- name: Default behaviors (default cache behavior) per distribution
  default: '1'
  scope: per AWS Region, per account
  adjustable: false
  description: The maximum number of default behaviors (default cache behavior) per distribution.
- name: Directory and file overrides per distribution
  default: '25'
  scope: per AWS Region, per account
  adjustable: false
  description: The maximum number of directory and file overrides per distribution. You can create up to 25
    directory and file overrides, and you can specify one cache behavior per override.
- name: Distributions
  default: '20'
  scope: per AWS Region, per account
  adjustable: false
  description: The maximum number of distributions per account.
- name: Instances
  default: '20'
  scope: per AWS Region, per account
  adjustable: true
  increase_url: https://console.aws.amazon.com/servicequotas/home/services/lightsail/quotas/L-4259AF9B
  description: The maximum number of vCPUs per Region for Lightsail instances.
- name: Load balancers
  default: '10'
  scope: per AWS Region, per account
  adjustable: false
  description: The maximum number of load balancers per region.
- name: Maximum active certificates
  default: '10'
  scope: per AWS Region, per account
  adjustable: false
  description: The maximum number of active certificates per region, per account.
- name: Maximum block storage disk space
  default: 16,000 Gigabytes
  scope: per AWS Region, per account
  adjustable: false
  description: The maximum amount of disk space (in GB) per block storage disk.
- name: Maximum buckets per account
  default: '20'
  scope: per AWS Region, per account
  adjustable: false
  description: The maximum number of buckets per account
- name: Maximum certificates
  default: '20'
  scope: per AWS Region, per account
  adjustable: false
  description: The maximum number of certificates per region, per account in the last 365 days.
- name: Maximum keys per bucket
  default: '2'
  scope: per AWS Region, per account
  adjustable: false
  description: The maximum number of keys per bucket
- name: Minimum block storage disk space
  default: 8 Gigabytes
  scope: per AWS Region, per account
  adjustable: false
  description: The minimum amount of disk space (in GB) per block storage disk.
- name: Origins per distribution
  default: '1'
  scope: per AWS Region, per account
  adjustable: false
  description: The maximum number of origins per distribution. You can specify one instance or one load balancer
    per distribution.
- name: Parallel RDP connections using the browser-based RDP client
  default: '1'
  scope: per AWS Region, per account
  adjustable: false
  description: The maximum number of parallel RDP connections using the browser-based RDP client per region,
    per account.
- name: Parallel SSH connections using the browser-based SSH client
  default: '5'
  scope: per AWS Region, per account
  adjustable: false
  description: The maximum number of parallel SSH connections using the browser-based SSH client per region,
    per account.
- name: Response timeout per origin for a distribution
  default: 60 Seconds
  scope: per AWS Region, per account
  adjustable: false
  description: The response timeout per origin (4-60 seconds).
- name: Static IP addresses
  default: '5'
  scope: per AWS Region, per account
  adjustable: true
  increase_url: https://console.aws.amazon.com/servicequotas/home/services/lightsail/quotas/L-BBF0F260
  description: The maximum number of static IP addresses per region.
- name: Tags
  default: '50'
  scope: per AWS Region, per account
  adjustable: false
  description: The maximum number of tags per resource.
- name: Total attached block storage disk space
  default: 20,000 Gigabytes
  scope: per AWS Region, per account
  adjustable: false
  description: The maximum amount of attached block storage disk space (in GB) per region.