Quotas for Azure Container Apps

Azure Container Apps quotas can apply to a subscription and region, a managed environment, or an application. The request process depends on whether the quota applies to the selected subscription and region or to one managed environment.

Request path	Description	Scope	Submit requests through
Subscription quota requests	The request might be fulfilled automatically or routed to Azure Support for further review.	Subscription and region	Azure Quota Management System
Managed environment quota requests	The request might be fulfilled automatically or routed to Azure Support for further review. You must create a managed environment before you can request a quota limit that applies to it.	One managed environment	The environment's Quota page

Note

A quota request might be routed to Azure Support as part of the review process.

View current quota levels

You can view subscription quota usage through the Azure Quota Management System. You can view managed environment quota usage on the environment's Quota page and through the Azure CLI.

In the Azure portal, select Azure Container Apps for Provider.

Use the following command to view your quotas on a per-environment basis.

Before you run the following command, make sure to replace the placeholders surrounded by <> with your own values.

az containerapp env list-usages \
  --resource-group <RESOURCE_GROUP_NAME> \
  --name <ENVIRONMENT_NAME>

When to request quota

If an environment or subscription reaches a quota limit, you might encounter:

• Scaling restrictions on an app
• Provisioning time-outs
• Container Apps environment or workload profile creation failures

Your default quotas depend on factors that include the age and type of your subscription and your service usage. If your app could receive thousands of requests per minute, check your current quota allocations before moving it into production.

If you encounter a Maximum Allowed Cores exceeded for the Managed Environment error, similar to the following example, you need to request a quota increase.

Maximum Allowed Cores exceeded for the Managed Environment.

Please check https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/quotas for resource limits

Other error messages could indicate that you've reached an environment or other quota limit. The Azure Quota Management System allows you to monitor and alert on quota usage to proactively prevent constraints.

Quota types

Azure Container Apps implements different categories of quotas that govern resource allocation across different aspects of your apps. These quotas are organized into basic quotas that control fundamental resource limits, GPU quotas for applications requiring specialized compute capabilities, dynamic sessions quotas for session-based workloads, and quotas for Sandboxes and Express.

Basic quotas

The following table lists the most requested quota changes. Subscription quotas apply per subscription, per region. Managed environment quotas require a separate request for each environment.

Quota	Scope	Request	View	Remarks
Managed Environment Count	Subscription and region	Submit a subscription quota request	Portal	The number of environments per region.
Managed Environment Consumption Cores	One managed environment	Submit a managed environment quota request	Portal or CLI	The maximum number of consumption cores allocated to the environment. This value is the sum of cores requested by each active replica across all apps in the environment.
Managed Environment General Purpose Cores	One managed environment	Submit a managed environment quota request	Portal or CLI	The total cores available to all general purpose (D-series) profiles within an environment.
Managed Environment Memory Optimized Cores	One managed environment	Submit a managed environment quota request	Portal or CLI	The total cores available to all memory optimized (E-series) profiles within an environment.

GPU quotas

Quota	Scope	Request	View	Remarks
Managed Environment Consumption NCA100 GPUs	One managed environment	Submit a managed environment quota request	Portal or CLI	The maximum number of consumption A100 GPUs available for serverless GPUs within an environment.
Managed Environment Consumption T4 GPUs	One managed environment	Submit a managed environment quota request	Portal or CLI	The maximum number of consumption T4 GPUs available for serverless GPUs within an environment.
Subscription NCA 100 GPUs	Subscription and region	Submit a subscription quota request	Portal	The maximum number of dedicated A100 GPUs that environments across this region can use.

Dynamic sessions quotas

Quota	Scope	Request	View	Remarks
Session pools	Subscription and region	Submit a subscription quota request	Portal	The maximum number of dynamic session pools per region.

Sandboxes and Express quotas

Note

Sandboxes and Express are limited to 2,000 cores. Express apps are limited to 30 replicas, and you can create up to 200 Express environments per region. Updates to the quota request pipeline are planned in the coming months. To request more quota, open a support request or work with your Microsoft account representative.

Related content

• Request quota changes for Azure Container Apps