Virtual Private Cloud:Limits and quotas

Item

Limit

Adjustable

Maximum number of VPCs that can be created in each region

10

Maximum number of vSwitches that can be created in each VPC

150

Available CIDR block for each VPC

• We recommend that you use 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, 192.168.0.0/16, or one of their subnets.

• You can also use a custom CIDR block other than 100.64.0.0/10, 224.0.0.0/4, 127.0.0.0/8, 169.254.0.0/16, or their subnets.

N/A

Maximum number of secondary IPv4 CIDR blocks that can be created in each VPC

5

Maximum number of secondary IPv6 CIDR blocks that can be created in each VPC

3

N/A

Maximum number of customer CIDR blocks that can be created in each VPC

3

Maximum number of private IP addresses that can be used by cloud resources in each VPC

60,000

Maximum number of tags that can be added to each VPC

20

Maximum number of tags that can be added to each vSwitch

20

Item

Limit

Adjustable

Maximum number of vRouters that can be created in each VPC

1

N/A

Maximum number of custom route tables that can be created in each VPC

9

Maximum number of custom routes that can be created in each route table

200

Maximum number of custom routes that point to an HAVIP

5

VPCs that do not support custom route tables

If a VPC contains an ECS instance that belongs to one of the following instance families, the VPC does not support custom route tables:

ecs.c1, ecs.c2, ecs.c4, ecs.ce4, ecs.cm4, ecs.d1, ecs.e3, ecs.e4, ecs.ga1, ecs.gn4, ecs.gn5, ecs.i1, ecs.m1, ecs.m2, ecs.mn4, ecs.n1, ecs.n2, ecs.n4, ecs.s1, ecs.s2, ecs.s3, ecs.se1, ecs.sn1, ecs.sn2, ecs.t1, and ecs.xn4.

For more information, see Advanced VPC features.

Maximum number of tags that can be added to each route table

20

Item

Limit

Adjustable

Maximum number of DHCP options sets that can be created with each Alibaba Cloud account

10

N/A

Maximum number of VPCs that can be associated with each DHCP options set

10

Maximum number of DHCP options sets that can be associated with each VPC

1

Maximum number of domain names that can be specified in each DHCP options set

1

Maximum number of DNS server IP addresses that can be specified in each DHCP options set

4

VPCs that cannot be associated with DHCP options sets

If a VPC contains an ECS instance that belongs to one of the following instance families, the VPC does not support DHCP options sets:

ecs.c1, ecs.c2, ecs.c4, ecs.ce4, ecs.cm4, ecs.d1, ecs.e3, ecs.e4, ecs.ga1, ecs.gn4, ecs.gn5, ecs.i1, ecs.m1, ecs.m2, ecs.mn4, ecs.n1, ecs.n2, ecs.n4, ecs.s1, ecs.s2, ecs.s3, ecs.se1, ecs.sn1, ecs.sn2, ecs.t1, and ecs.xn4.

For more information, see Advanced VPC features.

Item

Limit

Adjustable

Maximum number of principals supported by each VPC

50

Maximum number of principals supported by each vSwitch in a VPC

50

Maximum number of vSwitches that can be shared with each principal

30

Maximum number of IP addresses that each VPC can use

Maximum number of IP addresses that the resource owner and principals can use in each VPC

N/A

Types of cloud resources that can be created in a shared vSwitch

• ECS instance

• SLB instance

• ApsaraDB RDS instance

• Terway component

• ApsaraDB for MongoDB instance

• ApsaraDB for Redis instance

• ApsaraMQ for Kafka instance

• Elasticsearch

• Container Registry instance

• PolarDB for MySQL cluster

• ApsaraMQ for RocketMQ instance

• Microservices Engine

N/A

Limits on security groups in a shared VPC

• A resource principal cannot create resources in security groups that belong to other resource principals or the resource owner. The security groups include the default security group.

• The resource owner cannot create resources in security groups that belong to resource principals.

Types of vSwitches that can be shared

Non-default vSwitches

Item

Limit

Adjustable

Maximum number of flow logs that can be created in each region

10

N/A

ECS instance families that do not support flow logs

• When you enable flow logs for a VPC or a vSwitch, ECS instances in the VPC or vSwitch do not support flow logs if they belong to the following instance families. Other ECS instances that meet the requirements support flow logs:

• ENIs that are associated with ECS instances of the following instance families do not support flow logs:

  ecs.c1, ecs.c2, ecs.c4, ecs.ce4, ecs.cm4, ecs.d1, ecs.e3, ecs.e4, ecs.ga1, ecs.gn4, ecs.gn5, ecs.i1, ecs.m1, ecs.m2, ecs.mn4, ecs.n1, ecs.n2, ecs.n4, ecs.s1, ecs.s2, ecs.s3, ecs.se1, ecs.sn1, ecs.sn2, ecs.t1, and ecs.xn4.

Upgrade the ECS instances that do not support flow logs. For more information, see Upgrade the instance types of subscription instances and Change the instance type of a pay-as-you-go instance.

Item

Limit

Adjustable

Maximum number of network ACLs that can be created in each VPC

20

N/A

Maximum number of rules that can be added to a network ACL

• Inbound rules: 20

• Outbound rules: 20

VPCs that do not support network ACLs

If a VPC contains an ECS instance of the following instance families, the VPC does not support network ACLs:

ecs.c1, ecs.c2, ecs.c4, ecs.ce4, ecs.cm4, ecs.d1, ecs.e3, ecs.e4, ecs.ga1, ecs.gn4, ecs.gn5, ecs.i1, ecs.m1, ecs.m2, ecs.mn4, ecs.n1, ecs.n2, ecs.n4, ecs.s1, ecs.s2, ecs.s3, ecs.se1, ecs.sn1, ecs.sn2, ecs.t1, and ecs.xn4.

For more information, see Advanced VPC features.

Item

Limit

Adjustable

Network types that support HAVIPs

VPC

N/A

Maximum number of HAVIPs that can be associated with each ECS instance

5

Maximum number of EIPs that can be associated with each HAVIP

1

Maximum number of ECS instances or ENIs that can be associated with each HAVIP

10

Whether HAVIPs support broadcasting or multicasting

Not supported

Maximum number of HAVIPs that can be created with each Alibaba Cloud account

50

Maximum number of HAVIPs that can be created in each VPC

50

Maximum number of route entries that point to an HAVIP in each VPC

5

Item

Limit

Adjustable

Maximum number of traffic mirror sources that can be specified in each traffic mirror session

10

Maximum number of traffic mirror sessions that you can create in each region with each Alibaba Cloud account

20,000

N/A

Maximum number of traffic mirror sessions supported by each traffic mirror source

3

Maximum number of traffic mirror destinations that can be specified by each Alibaba Cloud account

Unlimited

Maximum number of traffic mirror sources that can use each traffic mirror destination

• If the traffic mirror destination is an internal-facing Classic Load Balancer (CLB) instance, it can be used by at most 200 traffic mirror sources.

• If the traffic mirror destination is an ENI and the ENI is associated with an ECS instance of the following instance families, it can be used by at most 100 traffic mirror sources. If the associated ECS instance does not belong to the following instance families, the traffic mirror destination can be used by at most 10 traffic mirror sources.

  Instance family

  ecs.ebmc7.32xlarge, ecs.ebmg7.32xlarge, ecs.ebmr7.32xlarge, ecs.ebmhfg7.48xlarge, ecs.ebmhfc7.48xlarge, ecs.ebmhfr7.48xlarge, ecs.ebmc7a.64xlarge, ecs.ebmg7a.64xlarge, ecs.ebmg7se.32xlarge, ecs.ebmg6a.64xlarge, ecs.ebmg6e.26xlarge, ecs.ebmc6a.64xlarge, ecs.ebmc6e.26xlarge, ecs.ebmr7a.64xlarge, ecs.ebmr6a.64xlarge, ecs.ebmr6e.26xlarge, ecs.c8i.48xlarge, ecs.g8i.48xlarge, ecs.c7nex.32xlarge, ecs.g7ne.24xlarge, ecs.c7.32xlarge, ecs.g7.32xlarge, ecs.r7.32xlarge, ecs.g7t.32xlarge, ecs.g6t.26xlarge, ecs.g6e.26xlarge, ecs.c7t.32xlarge, ecs.c6t.26xlarge, ecs.c6e.26xlarge, ecs.g5ne.18xlarge, and ecs.r7t.32xlarge

Maximum number of rules that can be specified in each filter

10

Maximum number of traffic mirror sessions that can be associated with each filter

2,000

ECS instance families that do not support traffic mirroring

ecs.c1, ecs.c2, ecs.c4, ecs.ce4, ecs.cm4, ecs.d1, ecs.e3, ecs.e4, ecs.ga1, ecs.c1, ecs.gn4, ecs.gn5, ecs.i1, ecs.m1, ecs.m2, ecs.mn4, ecs.n1, ecs.n2, ecs.n4, ecs.s1, ecs.s2, ecs.s3, ecs.se1, ecs.se1ne, ecs.se1nec, ecs.sn1, ecs.sn1ne, ecs.sn1nec, ecs.sn2, ecs.sn2ne, ecs.sn2nec, ecs.t1, and ecs.xn4

N/A

Item

Default quota

Adjustable

The maximum number of VPC peering connections supported by each VPC

10

The maximum number of VPC peering connections supported by each Alibaba Cloud account in each region

20

The maximum bandwidth supported by cross-border connections

1024 Mbps

The maximum bandwidth supported by inter-region connections

1024 Mbps

The default maximum bandwidth for intra-region connections

-1 Mbit/s, which indicates unlimited bandwidth

Item

Limit

Adjustable

Maximum number of IPv4 gateways that can be created in each VPC

1

N/A

Maximum number of gateway route tables that can be associated with each IPv4 gateway

1

Item

Limit

Adjustable

Maximum number of entries supported by each prefix list

50

Maximum number of prefix lists that can be shared with each principal

10

Maximum number of principals with which each prefix list can be shared

10

Maximum number of prefix lists that a user can create in each region

10

Maximum number of times that each prefix list can be associated

Unlimited

N/A