N00b - CPU Quota Error Message

[David Dickenson]

Last night as a test I left a task running over night (something I normally don't do) and this morning I discover my instance was no longer running and was unable to restart it - I got the attached notification.

I upgraded billing from the free tier to actual billing and was still unable to start.

I've tried upgrading from an 8GB RAM, 2 x CPU to 16GB RAM, 4 x CPU) but the instance still won't restart.

Do I need to wait 24 hours before the instance can be restarted?

Thanks for all help in advance.

[George (Cloud Platform Support)]

It looks as if you have reached a CPU quota, meaning the total number of virtual CPUs across all of your VM instances in a region. To check the available quota for resources in your project, go to the Quotas page in the Google Cloud Console. If your reached a CPU quota, waiting would not help; you need to request changes to quota from the Quotas page in the Cloud Console.