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title: Compute Throttling Limits
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description: Compute Throttling Limits
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title: Compute throttling limits
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description: Compute throttling limits
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author: viveksingla
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ms.service: virtual-machines
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# Compute Throttling Limits
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# Compute throttling limits
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**Applies to:** :heavy_check_mark: Linux VMs :heavy_check_mark: Windows VMs :heavy_check_mark: Flexible scale sets :heavy_check_mark: Uniform scale sets
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per minute. If the number of API requests exceeds these limits, the
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requests are throttled. Here's how these limits work:
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1. **Per Resource Limit** – Each resource, such as a virtual machine
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- **Per Resource Limit** – Each resource, such as a virtual machine
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(VM), has a specific limit for API requests. For instance, let us
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assume that a user creates 10 VMs in a subscription. The user
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can invoke up to 12 update requests for each VM in one minute. If the
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user exceeds the limit for the VM, API requests are throttled.
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This limit ensures that a few resources don’t consume the
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subscription level limits and throttle other resources.
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2. **Subscription Limit** – In addition to resource limits, there's
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- **Subscription Limit** – In addition to resource limits, there's
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an overarching limit on the number of API requests across all
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resources within a subscription. Any API requests beyond this limit
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are throttled, regardless of whether the limit for an individual resource has been reached. For instance, let us assume that a user has 200 VMs in a subscription. Even though user is entitled to initiate up to 12
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## Throttling limits for Virtual machines
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## Throttling limits for Virtual Machines
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API requests for Virtual Machines are categorized into seven distinct
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policies. Each policy has its own limits, depending upon how
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### What benefits do the throttling policies provide?
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1. All Compute resources have a uniform window of 1 min. Users
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- All Compute resources have a uniform window of 1 min. Users
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can successfully invoke API calls, 1 min after getting
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2. No single resource can use up all the limits under a subscription as
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3. Microsoft Compute is introducing a new algorithm, Token Bucket Algorithm, for determining the limits. The algorithm provides extra buffer to the customers, while making high number of API requests.
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- Microsoft Compute is introducing a new algorithm, Token Bucket Algorithm, for determining the limits. The algorithm provides extra buffer to the customers, while making high number of API requests.
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### Does the customer get an alert when they're about to reach their throttling limits?
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As part of every response, Microsoft Compute returns

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