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Created December 19, 2011 13:18
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EC2 RunInstances API returns InsufficientInstanceCapacity
$ ec2-run-instances --region us-east-1 \
  --availability-zone us-east-1a \
  --group default \
  --key foo \
  --instance-type t1.micro \
  ami-XXXXXXXX

Server.InsufficientInstanceCapacity: We currently do not have sufficient t1.micro capacity in the Availability Zone you requested (us-east-1a). Our system will be working on provisioning additional capacity. You can currently get t1.micro capacity by not specifying an Availability Zone in your request or choosing us-east-1d, us-east-1b.

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