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Quotas

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Quotas - Amazon Simple Storage Service

Your AWS account has default quotas, formerly referred to as limits, for each AWS service. Amazon S3 quotas include number of general purpose buckets, directory buckets, access points and more. You can request an increase for some quotas, but not all quotas can be increased. These increases are not granted immediately, so it may take a couple of days for your increase to become effective.

For a list of Amazon S3 quotas and their default values see, Amazon S3 quotas in the AWS General Reference.

Quota increases

To request a quota increase

You can request a quota increase by using one of following options:

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