Navigating AWS Service Quotas and Limits: Lessons Learned from Booking.com's Challenges

In this talk, we’ll explore an issue Booking.com encountered due to AWS limits and quotas. This unexpected problem affected multiple pipelines, leading to significant delays. We’ll discuss how we discovered the issue, why it surprised us despite our awareness of API limits, and the solutions we considered. Spoiler alert: what role does Terraform play in all of this?