title: Google Cloud quotas in us-east4 are very limiting
body: <p>Any new project that we start has very restrictive quotas for <code>us-east4</code> - e.g. 24 CPUs</p>
  
  <p>While most quota increase requests seem to be approved immediately, the requests are manual. Because our workflow involves automatically spinning up projects, we need an solution that doesn't involve manual intervention</p>
  
  <p>In comparison, the same project has more reasonable quotas for other regions - e.g. 2400 CPUs for <code>us-west1</code>, <code>us-east1</code>, <code>us-central1</code></p>
  
  <p>Is there something about <code>us-east4</code> that makes it inappropriate for these sorts of workloads? We're using it because of lower latency to us, but will be flexible if absolutely required</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/4k6t9.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/4k6t9.png" alt="quotas for new project"></a></p>