No A100s available or SSH permission denied: region-hop and re-register your key

TL;DR

When Lambda shows no A100 instances available: switch regions, check back in a few hours, or turn on the availability email notification instead of polling manually.

Steps

1. When Lambda shows no A100 instances available: switch regions, check back in a few hours, or turn on the availability email notification instead of polling manually. For Permission denied (publickey), verify the key is registered on your Lambda account and loaded locally with ssh-add -l, then re-add or regenerate it. Both problems look like broken setup but are usually just capacity or key registration.

When to use

You are seeing this: Both problems look like broken setup but are usually just capacity or key registration. Use this skill when you run into "No A100s available or SSH permission denied: region-hop and re-register your key".

When not to use

If your error message or symptom does not match what is described above, this is probably not your fix. Search for your exact error text instead of forcing this one to fit.

Versions

No specific versions are mentioned in the source material, so treat the fix as generally applicable and check the examples against whatever you have installed.

Why this happens

The original report does not dig into a root cause. It documents the symptom and the fix that resolved it.

Edge cases

• Also covers Permission denied (publickey): verify the SSH key is added to the Lambda account, check ssh-add -l, add the key manually, or regenerate and re-add.

Source: Web (pantrypilot Lambda Labs setup guide, troubleshooting): documents the real No A100 instances available problem, with fixes: try different regions (us-west-1, us-east-1, europe-west-1), check back every few hours, consider an alternative GPU, or sign up for the email notification when instances free up. Also covers Permission denied (publickey): verify the SSH key is added to the Lambda account, check ssh-add -l, add the key manually, or regenerate and re-add.

Verified resolution: When Lambda shows no A100 instances available: switch regions, check back in a few hours, or turn on the availability email notification instead of polling manually. For Permission denied (publickey), verify the key is registered on your Lambda account and loaded locally with ssh-add -l, then re-add or regenerate it. Both problems look like broken setup but are usually just capacity or key registration.

Source URL: https://github.com/abhikothari091/pantrypilot/blob/HEAD/modeldevelopment/trainingpipeline/04training/LAMBDALABSSETUPGUIDE.md