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You understand it if you think of engineering infinites rather than mathematical infinites. The capacity of a full single datacenter can be treated as infinite for most customers. I explained how its defined in the original comment. Amount of places in engineering where you treat even a 3 order of magnitude difference as infinite is a lot, but the number of order of magnitudes varies depending on context.


You don't have a single Google datacenter (or any other provider / big name) for a single tenant. The bigger the DC, the more the number of tenants/customers reaches "infinity" (giving the same meaning to "infinity" you are giving to it)


No customer has access to an appreciable fraction of any data center, and if they do they don't have 10x overhead in reserved quota.


Maybe if you're the only customer, but it seems you've not yet gotten a "no capacity" error from AWS, which happens sometimes.




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