# How to use a pre-defined VPC and avoid VpcLimitExceeded? (Fixed)

**URL:** <https://forum.serverless.com/t/how-to-use-a-pre-defined-vpc-and-avoid-vpclimitexceeded-fixed/4843>\
**Category:** Serverless Framework\
**Tags:** aws\
**Created:** [June 22, 2018, 1:20pm UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/how-to-use-a-pre-defined-vpc-and-avoid-vpclimitexceeded-fixed/4843 "2018-06-22T13:20:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![aneilbaboo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.serverless.com/aneilbaboo/32/1775_2.png) [@aneilbaboo](https://forum.serverless.com/u/aneilbaboo)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 1:20pm UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/how-to-use-a-pre-defined-vpc-and-avoid-vpclimitexceeded-fixed/4843/1 "2018-06-22T13:20:31Z")

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## Please ignore - I realize that someone added added a VPC resource definition to our serverless.yml.

I use Serverless to generate separate development environments for each developer, via stages. I quickly bumped into the [5 VPC per region limit](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonVPC/latest/UserGuide/VPC_Appendix_Limits.html) because Serverless is generating a new VPC for every stage. This causes the following error:

DefaultVPC - The maximum number of VPCs has been reached. (Service: AmazonEC2; Status Code: 400; Error Code: VpcLimitExceeded;

How can I get serverless to use a single pre-defined VPC instead of generating ones for each stage?

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**Author:** ![simlu](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.serverless.com/simlu/32/1739_2.png) [@simlu](https://forum.serverless.com/u/simlu)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 12:08am UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/how-to-use-a-pre-defined-vpc-and-avoid-vpclimitexceeded-fixed/4843/2 "2018-06-29T00:08:22Z")

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We just use different aws accounts per stage. Not sure if that’s possible for you

Edit: how do you have sls set up? By default it should not create new vpcs?