RetentionTriggers - Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
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RetentionTriggers

Defines the specific triggers that cause instances to be retained in a Retained state rather than terminated. Each trigger corresponds to a different failure scenario during the instance lifecycle. This allows fine-grained control over when to preserve instances for manual intervention.

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TerminateHookAbandon

Specifies the action when a termination lifecycle hook is abandoned due to failure, timeout, or explicit abandonment (calling CompleteLifecycleAction).

Set to Retain to move instances to a Retained state. Set to Terminate for default termination behavior.

Retained instances don't count toward desired capacity and remain until you call TerminateInstanceInAutoScalingGroup.

Type: String

Valid Values: retain | terminate

Required: No

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For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific Amazon SDKs, see the following: