Quotas and limits

Confidential VM is subject to the Compute Engine resource quotas because it is a type of Compute Engine VM.

What is a quota?

A quota restricts how much of a shared Google Cloud resource your Google Cloud project can use, including hardware, software, and network components. Therefore, quotas are a part of a system that does the following:

  • Monitors your use or consumption of Google Cloud products and services.
  • Restricts your consumption of those resources, for reasons that include ensuring fairness and reducing spikes in usage.
  • Maintains configurations that automatically enforce prescribed restrictions.
  • Provides a means to request or make changes to the quota.

In most cases, when a quota is exceeded, the system immediately blocks access to the relevant Google resource, and the task that you're trying to perform fails. In most cases, quotas apply to each Google Cloud project and are shared across all applications and IP addresses that use that Google Cloud project.

View your quota

Not all projects have the same quotas. As you use Google Cloud, your quotas may increase accordingly. Learn how to view your quota.

Increase your quota

To increase or decrease most quotas, use the Google Cloud console. For more information, see Request a higher quota.