RequestLimitExceeded

[Nishant Chandra]

Hi,

I am using v 1.7.1. When I try to start few Amazon EC2 nodes, I see the
following exception:

2014-03-07 03:09:27,063 [ERROR]
org.jclouds.aws.handlers.AWSServerErrorRetryHandler user thread 12 - Cannot
retry after server error, command has exceeded retry limit 5:
[method=public abstract java.util.Set
org.jclouds.aws.ec2.features.AWSInstanceApi.describeInstancesInRegion(java.lang.String,java.lang.String[])[us-west-1,
[Ljava.lang.String;@7e788896], request=POST
https://ec2.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/ HTTP/1.1]
2014-03-07 03:09:27,064 [ERROR] jclouds.compute user thread 12 - << problem
customizing node(us-west-1/i-c8236f97):
org.jclouds.aws.AWSResponseException: request POST
https://ec2.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/ HTTP/1.1 failed with code 503, error:
AWSError{requestId='4969dc9-71a2-457f-9b9f-c86b03b3a40',
requestToken='null', code='RequestLimitExceeded', message='Request limit
exceeded.', context='{Response=, Errors=}'}
        at
org.jclouds.aws.handlers.ParseAWSErrorFromXmlContent.handleError(ParseAWSErrorFromXmlContent.java:77)
        at
org.jclouds.http.handlers.DelegatingErrorHandler.handleError(DelegatingErrorHandler.java:69)
        at
org.jclouds.http.internal.BaseHttpCommandExecutorService.shouldContinue(BaseHttpCommandExecutorService.java:180)
        at
org.jclouds.http.internal.BaseHttpCommandExecutorService.invoke(BaseHttpCommandExecutorService.java:150)
        at
org.jclouds.rest.internal.InvokeHttpMethod.invoke(InvokeHttpMethod.java:93)
        at
org.jclouds.rest.internal.InvokeHttpMethod.apply(InvokeHttpMethod.java:76)
        at
org.jclouds.rest.internal.InvokeHttpMethod.apply(InvokeHttpMethod.java:47)
        at
org.jclouds.reflect.FunctionalReflection$FunctionalInvocationHandler.handleInvocation(FunctionalReflection.java:117)
        at
com.google.common.reflect.AbstractInvocationHandler.invoke(AbstractInvocationHandler.java:79)
        at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy56.describeInstancesInRegion(Unknown Source)
        at
org.jclouds.ec2.compute.strategy.EC2GetNodeMetadataStrategy.getRunningInstanceInRegion(EC2GetNodeMetadataStrategy.java:68)
        at
org.jclouds.aws.ec2.compute.strategy.AWSEC2GetNodeMetadataStrategy.getRunningInstanceInRegion(AWSEC2GetNodeMetadataStrategy.java:56)

What is the reason and probable fix for it?

-- 
Nishant