# General purpose bucket quotas, limitations, and restrictions
Quotas, restrictions, and limitations

An Amazon S3 general purpose bucket is owned by the AWS account that created it. Bucket ownership is not transferable to another account.

## Bucket quotas


By default, you can create up to 10,000 general purpose buckets per AWS account. To request a quota increase for general purpose buckets, visit the [Service Quotas console](https://console.aws.amazon.com/servicequotas/home/services/s3/quotas/). 

**Important**  
We strongly recommend using only paginated `ListBuckets` requests. Unpaginated `ListBuckets` requests are only supported for AWS accounts set to the default general purpose bucket quota of 10,000. If you have an approved general purpose bucket quota above 10,000, you must send paginated `ListBuckets` requests to list your account’s buckets. All unpaginated `ListBuckets` requests will be rejected for AWS accounts with a general purpose bucket quota greater than 10,000. 

**Note**  
You must use the following AWS Regions to view your quota, bucket utilization, or request an increase for your general purpose buckets in your AWS account.  
General purpose bucket quotas for commercial Regions can only be viewed and managed from US East (N. Virginia).
General purpose bucket quotas for AWS GovCloud (US) can only be viewed and managed from AWS GovCloud (US-West).

For information about service quotas, see [AWS service quotas](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws_service_limits.html) in the *Amazon Web Services General Reference*. 

## Objects and bucket limitations


There is no max bucket size or limit to the number of objects that you can store in a bucket. You can store all of your objects in a single bucket, or you can organize them across several buckets. However, you can't create a bucket from within another bucket.

## Bucket naming rules


When you create a bucket, you choose its name and the AWS Region to create it in. After you create a bucket, you can't change its name or Region. For more information about bucket naming, see [General purpose bucket naming rules](bucketnamingrules.md).