I'm setting up a new organization and ran into the default five-account limit. I submitted a quota increase request through the command line, and it currently shows as CASE_OPENED. I'm trying to plan the rest of the setup and would like to know whether these requests are usually approved within minutes, take a few hours, or require a manual review. Should I continue with other tasks, or is it likely that the increase will be approved soon?
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Most quota increases are automated, but new accounts and certain resources may be reviewed based on account age, billing or spending history, region, and overall trust signals. A brand-new organization can therefore take longer than an established account, sometimes requiring manual review.
Don't rely only on the status shown on the quota page. I've seen a request remain at CASE_OPENED for several days even though the increase had been approved within a few hours. Open the underlying support case and check its actual status and response.
You can probably keep working on portable infrastructure while you wait, especially if your templates are designed to deploy across multiple accounts. That said, if the five-account limit blocks creating the workload accounts you need, the quota approval is a genuine dependency rather than something you can completely work around.
It depends on how the request was submitted. Self-service quota requests are usually much faster, and modest increases are sometimes approved immediately. Requests handled through a general support case can take considerably longer.
That is the problem here: the root, auditing, security, log-archive, and infrastructure accounts already use the five-account allowance, so creating isolated workload accounts is currently blocked.