# Maximum number of connection to an Aerospike node

**URL:** <https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/maximum-number-of-connection-to-an-aerospike-node/4591>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Tags:** query\
**Created:** [September 15, 2017, 6:51am UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/maximum-number-of-connection-to-an-aerospike-node/4591 "2017-09-15T06:51:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![waynenguyen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ed8c4c/32.png) [@waynenguyen](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/waynenguyen)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 6:51am UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/maximum-number-of-connection-to-an-aerospike-node/4591/1 "2017-09-15T06:51:50Z")

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Hi,

As stated above, I’m wondering if there are numbers related to the amount of connections an Aerospike node can handle? Is ` proto-fd-max` the correct configuration? A connection here means a distinct connection from a client machine to a Aerospike node (i.e if I have 100 machines, there would be 100 connections to the Aerospike node).

Also, I’m using Aerospike on AWS, so would upgrading the instance type to be larger means I can get a higher number of connections for the node?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Albot](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.aerospike.com/albot/32/2076_2.png) [@Albot](https://discuss.aerospike.com/u/Albot)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 11:23pm UTC](https://discuss.aerospike.com/t/maximum-number-of-connection-to-an-aerospike-node/4591/2 "2017-09-15T23:23:36Z")

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proto-fd-max is the maximum number of client connections to a node, yes. I would like to say that 1 client can generate hundreds of connections depending on the load/type of fetch/language