AWS - Can't launch an instance, account blocked

Question

Message received when trying to launch an instance:

Launch Failed This account is currently blocked and not recognized as a valid account. Please contact [email protected] if you have questions. Hide launch log Creating security groups Successful (sg-55e2ae11) Authorizing inbound rules Successful Initiating launches FailureRetry

Answer 1

I received a similar error some time back and got this response from Amazon :

Dear AWS Customer,

Thank you for signing up with Amazon Web Services!

As a new customer, you can launch Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances in 3 AWS regions. We suggest you to use the regions US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), but if you prefer other regions please contact us at [email protected] and let us know which 3 regions are more convenient for you. You can find the list of regions and which services are available in each of the regions at http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/globalinfrastructure/regional-product-services/. Please make sure you are not running EC2 instances in the region you are transitioning from.

If you have a use case that requires you to run EC2 instances in more than 3 regions, please contact us at [email protected] describing your use case and we will increase the number of available regions.

This limitation is temporary and only affects EC2 – other AWS services are available in all regions.

Sincerely, Amazon Web Services

This basically implies that you need to change your region to US West(Oregon), US East(N. Virginia) or US East(Ohio). If you insist on using other regions, you'll have to contact AWS.

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Comments

Thank you so much, this worked!