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Re:AWS X1 instances – 1.9 TB of memory by geofft on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @03:09PM (#11724833)
It looks like that hard limit became a soft limit in August:

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2015/08/amazon-s3...

Re:AWS X1 instances – 1.9 TB of memory by samstave on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @03:40PM (#11725146)
Hmm... I didn't know this. The last time I asked they said it would never happen. I was told the original reason was that all buckets had to have a unique name
Re:AWS X1 instances – 1.9 TB of memory by admiun on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @04:18PM (#11725523)
I thought that too but I successfully raised our limit after they made it a soft limit, so give it a shot!