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Object Storage Service:HTTP status code 503

Last Updated:May 29, 2025

This topic describes the types of error messages returned with HTTP status code 503, and the common causes and solutions to these errors.

DownloadTrafficRateLimitExceeded

Please reduce your download request traffic

  • Cause: The download bandwidth exceeds the limit.

  • Solution: For more information about bandwidth limits, see Bandwidth. If your business requires a higher bandwidth, contact technical support.

UploadTrafficRateLimitExceeded

Please reduce your upload request traffic

  • Cause: The upload bandwidth exceeds the limit.

  • Solution: For more information about bandwidth limits, see Bandwidth. If your business requires a higher bandwidth, contact Bandwidth. If your business requires a higher bandwidth, contact technical support.

MetaOperationQpsLimitExceeded

Qps limit for the meta operation is exceeded

  • Cause: The queries per second (QPS) exceeds the default limit.

    OSS limits the QPS for the following API operations:

    • Operations related to services, such as GetService (ListBuckets)

    • Operations related to buckets, such as PutBucket and GetBucketLifecycle

    • Operations related to CORS, such as PutBucketCORS and GetBucketCORS

    • Operations related to LiveChannel, such as PutLiveChannel and DeleteLiveChannel.

  • Solution: Perform the operation again after a few seconds.

ServiceUnavailable

Thread pool is almost full, please retry later

  • Cause: The OSS server is busy.

  • Solution: Try again later.

TotalQpsLimitExceeded

Max total qps limit is exceeded

  • Cause: The QPS exceeds the limit.

  • Solution: Limit the total QPS for your Alibaba Cloud account. The limit of the total QPS for a single account is 10,000. However, the actual values that can be achieved are different in different read and write modes:

    • Sequential read/write: 2,000 QPS

      If you upload a large number of objects whose names contain sequential prefixes such as timestamps and letters, multiple object indexes may be stored in a single partition. If too many requests are sent to query these objects, the response time may be slow. We recommend that you do not upload a large number of objects whose names contain sequential prefixes. For more information about how to change sequential prefixes to random prefixes, see OSS performance best practices.

    • Non-sequential read/write: 10,000 QPS

    If you require a higher QPS, contact the technical support.

ActiveRequestLimitExceeded

Max active request limit is exceeded

  • Cause: The number of concurrent requests exceeds the limit.

  • Solution: Contact the technical support.

CpuLimitExceeded

Please reduce your request rate

  • Cause: The CPU cores consumed by concurrent requests for IMG exceeds the limit.

  • Solution: Reduce the number of concurrent requests for IMG. If you want to increase the number of concurrent requests , contact technical support.