Hello!
I am having trouble with the C4 W4 Assignment 2 - Capstone Project Part 2 - Data Quality and Orchestration, because I am stuck in the creation of the link to the AWS Console, which is always empty.
I have already requested two resets via the appropriate form, without receiving any response, and the link still does not work, even after trying to update and rebbot several times.
Already in the previous C4 W4 Assignment 1 - Capstone Project Part 1, I had significant problems with the creation of resources via Terraform, again with the creation of the link to the AWS Console and with the access permissions to the Lake Formation (not to mention further problems in other Labs, such as the one with Superset), which prevented me from completing the entire specialization within the monthly renewal deadline, forcing me to pay for another month, for reasons beyond my control.
Another deadline is approaching again and I find it very unpleasant to pay a second time for bugs or malfunctions of the course tests.
These last assignments are really frustrating, they waste huge amounts of time (because initially you think you have done something wrong) and require you to extend the end of the course, with extra payments not due.
I beg you, also on behalf of many other “fellow” students of mine, to definitively correct these problems, because they disqualify this really interesting introductory path on data engineering and the excellent work of Joe Reis and DeepLearning.AI.
@Stefano_Reali We did receive some reports from learners that the link to AWS does not open even after a lab refresh. We did investigate these accounts (including yours), and all is clean with those accounts. I’m still not sure why that’s happening. I tried to follow up with some of these learners, and it happens when they try again the lab, the link works. So I’m still trying to understand and I couldn’t reproduce that error for my account.
When you try the lab again, can you type this command:
cat /home/coder/vocapi_logger > vocapi_logger
you will see a link to AWS account, does this link work? I’ll follow up with additional things in a message for you. It will be easier for me to track that.
We are working on updating the last two capstones labs, the visualization part is optional but we identified the issue and we will fix it.
I am on C4w3 and am stuck with at the aws url link fetched is empty; I tried the command: cat /home/coder/vocapi_logger > vocapi_logger and this the message I got;vocapi logger
Run count initialized to 0
.aws directory and aws_console_url file are created
Running the vocapi_call at Thu Jul 10 03:45:54 PM UTC 2025
Using LAB_SPACE_ID: ohxaqzzvwypw
START_LAB_DATA received: {‘lab_data’: {‘partid’: ‘3581688’, ‘assignmentid’: ‘3581687’, ‘courseid’: ‘62825’}}
Unsuccessful vocapi call to start lab
Error: Failed operation: Start. Your total lab usage time of 1801 minutes has exceeded the total allocated time of 1800 minutes
Initial Lab state: Terminated
Final Lab state after loop: Terminated
AWS Console URL extracted:
AWS credentials file created at /home/coder/.aws/credentials
AWS config file created at /home/coder/.aws/config
Running the vocapi_call_get_aws_console_url at Thu Jul 10 03:45:57 PM UTC 2025
Current run count: 0
Using LAB_SPACE_ID: ohxaqzzvwypw
START_LAB_DATA received: {‘lab_data’: {‘partid’: ‘3581688’, ‘assignmentid’: ‘3581687’, ‘courseid’: ‘62825’}}
vocapi response status: success
Extracted AWS Console URL
AWS Console URL written to /home/coder/.aws/aws_console_url
Run count incremented to: 1
Run count written to /home/coder/vocapi_call_run_count
Starting the 2-hour wait at Thu Jul 10 03:46:00 PM UTC 2025
Starting the vocapi_call_wrapper at Thu Jul 10 03:46:00 PM UTC 2025
Iteration 1 of 8 started at Thu Jul 10 03:46:00 PM UTC 2025
Sleeping for 900 seconds before next iteration…
IT APPEARS I HAVE USED UP ALL MY QUOTA. How can i get around this please
vocapi logger
Run count initialized to 0
.aws directory and aws_console_url file are created
Running the vocapi_call at Fri Sep 12 11:44:23 PM UTC 2025
Using LAB_SPACE_ID: ohxaqzzvwypw
START_LAB_DATA received: {‘lab_data’: {‘partid’: ‘3581688’, ‘assignmentid’: ‘3581687’, ‘courseid’: ‘62825’}}
Unsuccessful vocapi call to start lab
Error: Failed operation: Start. Your total lab spend of $31.664784 has exceeded the total budget of $30
Initial Lab state: Terminated
Final Lab state after loop: Terminated
AWS Console URL extracted:
AWS credentials file created at /home/coder/.aws/credentials
AWS config file created at /home/coder/.aws/config
Running the vocapi_call_get_aws_console_url at Fri Sep 12 11:44:25 PM UTC 2025
Current run count: 0
Using LAB_SPACE_ID: ohxaqzzvwypw
START_LAB_DATA received: {‘lab_data’: {‘partid’: ‘3581688’, ‘assignmentid’: ‘3581687’, ‘courseid’: ‘62825’}}
Hello , I just finished my final project part 1 and 2 and came back to finish the week 3 programming assignment and encountered this. Can you please increase my quota so i finish and get my certificate please. Thank you
An error occurred (AccessDeniedException) when calling the StartJobRun operation: User: arn:aws:sts::471112947249:assumed-role/voclabs/user4343792=fgknsdnwixuu is not authorized to perform: glue:StartJobRun on resource: arn:aws:glue:us-east-1:471112947249:job/glue_api_users_extract_job because no identity-based policy allows the glue:StartJobRun action
If you could help me it would be great. Looking forward to hearing from you.
@hawraa.salami I’m getting the same issue again. I can’t get the link to AWS console
neither cat /home/coder/vocapi_logger > vocapi_logge nor cat ../.aws/aws_console_url worked for me.
I’m stuck with grading problem in part 1 as well, could you please help since this is my last subscription month (in 9 days).
Hi - I, too, cannot launch AWS console. In the vocapi_logger it notifies me the course has expired. I have tried to reboot my session, but I cannot launch a new console instance
