Quotas and limits

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This document contains the current resource capacity limits and per-minute API request quotas for Memorystore for Valkey.

Instance limits

Memorystore for Valkey enforces the following usage limits:

Limit	Value
Databases per instance	1
Usage units per instance	250

Max clients

Node type	Max clients^1
shared-core-nano	5,000
standard-small	16,000 (default). Max value is 32,000
highmem-medium	32,000 (default). Max value is 64,000
highmem-xlarge	64,000

¹ For instructions on adjusting the maximum clients limit, see Configure an instance.

Instance usage units

The per-project instance usage units for a Memorystore for Valkey instance is calculated by the following formula:

Instance usage units = (shard_count) * (1 + replica_count)

The regional quota for Memorystore for Valkey limits the total amount of usage units that you can provision across all of your Memorystore for Valkey instances in a region.

For example, if you provision three instances in your project with 3 shards and 1 replica each in us-central1, you have consumed 18 units out of the total regional unit quota for us-central1. To request a higher quota for a region, see Regional instance usage unit quota increases.

Per-minute API requests quota

Note:

• You cannot request a quota increase for Memorystore for Valkey API operations, such as instance create, update, and delete. There is no limit to the number of Valkey commands you can run, such as Valkey SET, GET, and DEL.
• Follow the Exponential backoff recommendations to reduce the number of API requests made if an error is encountered.

The per-minute quotas for Memorystore for Valkey API requests/operations are as follows, and are subject to change:

API Requests Quota	Value
Create or delete Valkey instance requests per project per minute	10
Valkey instance requests per project per minute	60

Create or delete Valkey instance requests include:

• Create operations (gcloud memorystore instances create)
• Delete operations (gcloud memorystore instances delete)

Memorystore for Valkey API operations include:

• Get operations (gcloud memorystore instances describe)
• List operations (gcloud memorystore instances list)
• Create operations (gcloud memorystore instances create)
• Delete operations (gcloud memorystore instances delete)
• Update operations (gcloud rmemorystore instances update)

This quota is for memorystore.googleapis.com requests/operations, not OSS Valkey protocol/commands. These limits apply to each Google Cloud console project and are shared across all applications and IP addresses using that project.