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The client sent too many requests in too short a time.
The Nova API doesn’t return this code today. It is reserved so clients can handle it when it does.

How to fix

Wait the number of seconds in the Retry-After header, then retry. This response isn’t stored for an Idempotency-Key, so a retry with the same key runs the operation again.
Last modified on October 27, 2026