spot vcpu quota increase

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spot vcpu quota increase

Vipal Gujrathi 40

Hi,

I would like to increase spot vcpu quota in centralindia or southindia location. I am not able to do so from "Quota"

When i raise support ticket it increase "normal vCpu quota"

How can i get this done

Shree Hima Bindu Maganti 7,420 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2026-03-07T15:17:40.3633333+00:00
Hi @Vipal Gujrathi
it sounds like you’re running into the fact that by default “Usage + quotas” and a plain support ticket bump up only your standard (pay-as-you-go) vCPU limits, not the Spot vCPU pool. To raise your Spot vCPU quota in Central India or South India, you need to explicitly target the Spot quotas.

Go to the Azure portal and search for “Quotas”

On the Quotas overview page, select Compute

In the My quotas list, type spot into the search/filter box – this will surface your Spot vCPU entries

Locate the Spot vCPU quotas for Central India and South India (you may see entries like “Spot vCPUs – Total regional” or per-family)

Select the quota(s) you want to increase and click New Quota Request

Choose either Enter a new limit (you type in the absolute number of vCPUs) or Adjust the usage % (move the slider to a higher percentage)

Click Submit – the request typically auto-approves within minutes

Once approved, you’ll see your Spot vCPU quota updated and you’ll be able to deploy more Spot VMs in that region. If the Spot quotas don’t appear at all, or if your tenant/service-principal doesn’t have permissions, you may need to:

• Make sure your account has at least Contributor rights on the subscription .If the quota is listed as non-adjustable, use the “Open a support request” link in the portal under Help + support, choose Service and subscription limits (quotas) and then Compute – VM (cores-vCPUs), but be sure to call out Spot vCPU specifically in the details
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quotas/spot-quota?wt.mc_id=knowledgesearch_inproduct_azure-cxp-community-insider
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quotas/spot-quota?wt.mc_id=knowledgesearch_inproduct_azure-cxp-community-insider#request-an-increase-for-spot-vcpu-quotas
Let me know if you have any further assistances needed.

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Shree Hima Bindu Maganti 7,420 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2026-03-07T15:17:40.3633333+00:00

Hi @Vipal Gujrathi
it sounds like you’re running into the fact that by default “Usage + quotas” and a plain support ticket bump up only your standard (pay-as-you-go) vCPU limits, not the Spot vCPU pool. To raise your Spot vCPU quota in Central India or South India, you need to explicitly target the Spot quotas.

Go to the Azure portal and search for “Quotas”

On the Quotas overview page, select Compute

In the My quotas list, type spot into the search/filter box – this will surface your Spot vCPU entries

Locate the Spot vCPU quotas for Central India and South India (you may see entries like “Spot vCPUs – Total regional” or per-family)

Select the quota(s) you want to increase and click New Quota Request

Choose either Enter a new limit (you type in the absolute number of vCPUs) or Adjust the usage % (move the slider to a higher percentage)

Click Submit – the request typically auto-approves within minutes

Once approved, you’ll see your Spot vCPU quota updated and you’ll be able to deploy more Spot VMs in that region. If the Spot quotas don’t appear at all, or if your tenant/service-principal doesn’t have permissions, you may need to:

• Make sure your account has at least Contributor rights on the subscription .If the quota is listed as non-adjustable, use the “Open a support request” link in the portal under Help + support, choose Service and subscription limits (quotas) and then Compute – VM (cores-vCPUs), but be sure to call out Spot vCPU specifically in the details
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quotas/spot-quota?wt.mc_id=knowledgesearch_inproduct_azure-cxp-community-insider
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quotas/spot-quota?wt.mc_id=knowledgesearch_inproduct_azure-cxp-community-insider#request-an-increase-for-spot-vcpu-quotas
Let me know if you have any further assistances needed.

Answer 1

Hello @Vipal Gujrathi ,

In additional to above response, will be adding further information.

Azure Resource Manager enforces two types of vCPU quotas for virtual machines:

standard vCPU quotas
spot vCPU quotas

Standard vCPU quotas apply to pay-as-you-go VMs and reserved VM instances.

They're enforced at two tiers, for each subscription, in each region:

The first tier is the total regional vCPU quota.
The second tier is the VM-family vCPU quota such as D-series vCPUs.

Spot vCPU quotas apply to spot virtual machines (VMs) across all VM families (SKUs).

This article shows you how to request quota increases for spot vCPUs. You can also request increases for VM-family vCPU quotas or vCPU quotas by region.

Request an increase for spot vCPU quotas- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quotas/spot-quota#request-an-increase-for-spot-vcpu-quotas

Let me know if you have any further assistances needed.

Answer 2

TP 156.8K Volunteer Moderator

Hi Vipal,

Please confirm you are following steps below:

1. Sign in to Azure portal and navigate to My Quotas using link below:

https://portal.azure.com/#view/Microsoft_Azure_Capacity/QuotaMenuBlade/~/myQuotas

2. Enter spot in search box, click on Region: filter at top and select South India

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3. Click on pencil icon to the right of Total Regional Spot vCPUs

4. Enter new limit in the box and click Submit

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Please click Accept Answer and upvote if the above was helpful.

Thanks.

-TP

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Answer 3

Spot vCPU quota is separate from the standard (normal) vCPU quota. Increasing the standard regional or VM-family quota will not change the spot quota. Use the dedicated spot quota flow in Quotas, or explicitly request a spot quota increase via support.

Use the Quotas blade for spot vCPU quota

In the Azure portal, search for and open Quotas.
On the Overview page, select Compute.
On My quotas, in the Region filter, select Central India or South India as needed.
In the Search box, type spot to show only spot vCPU quotas.
Select the spot vCPU quota entries that apply to the region.
Select New Quota Request at the top.
Choose one of:
- Enter a new limit and type the new spot vCPU limit, or
- Adjust the usage % and move the slider to increase the limit based on current usage.
Select Submit.

The request is reviewed and usually completed within a few minutes. If it cannot be fulfilled automatically, a link appears to open a support request specifically for spot vCPU quota.

If the portal only increases normal vCPU quota

If the current support request path is only changing standard vCPU quotas, ensure that:

The quota items selected in Quotas → Compute → My quotas are the spot vCPU entries (they will be labeled as spot), not the standard regional or VM-family quotas.
When opening a support request from the Quotas blade, start it from the spot quota row (using the support link if shown) or from the automatic link that appears when a spot quota request is denied. That ensures the ticket is created against the spot quota type, not the standard quota.

If spot quotas in Central India/South India are non-adjustable in the UI, use the support link from the Quotas blade for those specific spot quota rows and clearly specify “spot vCPU quota increase” and the target region and limit in the ticket details.

Also keep in mind:

Spot vCPU quota is enforced across all spot VMs in the subscription and region; if the total existing + new spot vCPUs would exceed the approved spot quota, deployments will fail.
Spot VMs can be evicted at any time when Azure needs capacity back, regardless of quota.

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