Google wouldn't increase my quota unless I talked to a sales person. I wanted 4 GPUs. 4. That took at least a week to achieve.

AWS quotas come in hard and soft varieties. A hard quota cannot be changed as it’s factored into service operations (e.g. APIGW’s 29 second integration timeout). A soft quota may or may not require review before being granted. However, if it is a soft quota, the best thing to do is escalate to your TAM after opening with the business impact of the request. The TAM is paid out of your enterprise support contract, so the least they can do is advocate for you.

My problem with the quote system is that it's largely opaque until you run into it. Yes, you can pore through the documentation and find the relevant quotas, but did you find them all? Spoiler alert: no, you didn't.

I know they are trying to improve visibility on quota limits, and they have a tool now, but in my experience it was half baked and only knew about a handful of the limits we were running into.

Some of the AWS services have clear quota limits and it works as expected, you give me 10k widget credits and if I use 10k widget credits it stops working and I need to open a ticket. Example of this would be SES.

Where it ends up being a bit of a nightmare is stuff like SMS on SNS where they would specify a quota but we could still hit it before their system reported it. We never did figure out if they were looking at a rolling monthly average and bursty campaigns could cause it to creep above their projection. This was always a manual review for this product and the only way we could avoid it was getting way higher quotas than we needed approved. Ultimately we ended up moving SMS over to Nexmo (now Vonage) for bulk SMS so we didn't have to have potential outages when the mystery quota of the now was reached.

Many quota systems are measured in qps cannot exceed the avg allotment. Hence yes, short lived large bursts deviating might not be allowed. Docs on the quota usually clarify this.

They have a quota page in aws console which displays all quotas. Defaults are in all the documentation. And quota information can be queries from the cli and will tell you if it’s adjustable or not.

They have a support page for quota changes and are usually actioned in around 15-30m on average.

What more do you want?