True, its likely just like all other limits; arbitrarily small for anyone by default to prevent you from having an errant process spin up a ton of resources that you'd be expected to pay for.
Just like how you can get specific increases on your spot bids so long as you acknowledge that if you get a spot spike, and your personal limit is far greater than the spike -- you'll be charged your rate.
This looks like it's more geared towards enabling you to automate / orchestrate your AWS resources, that run customer-facing code.