# Deleting a scaling policy
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You can delete a scaling policy using the Amazon Web Services Management Console, the Amazon CLI or the Application Auto Scaling API

**Deleting a scaling policy using the Amazon Web Services Management Console**

You can only edit policies with type Predefined metrics by using the Amazon Web Services Management Console

1. Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console and open the Amazon ElastiCache console at [https://console.amazonaws.cn/elasticache/](https://console.amazonaws.cn/elasticache/).

1. In the navigation pane, choose **Valkey** or **Redis OSS**

1. Choose the cluster whose auto scaling policy you want to delete.

1. Choose the **Auto Scaling policies** tab. 

1. Under **Scaling policies**, choose the auto scaling policy, and then choose **Delete**. 

**Deleting a scaling policy using the Amazon CLI or the Application Auto Scaling API **

You can use the Amazon CLI or the Application Auto Scaling API to delete a scaling policy from an ElastiCache cluster. 

**CLI**

To delete a scaling policy from your ElastiCache for Valkey and Redis OSS cluster, use the [delete-scaling-policy](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/cli/latest/reference/application-autoscaling/delete-scaling-policy.html) command with the following parameters: 
+ --policy-name – The name of the scaling policy. 
+ --resource-id – The resource identifier for the cluster. For this parameter, the resource type is ReplicationGroup and the unique identifier is the name of the cluster, for example `replication-group/myscalablecluster`. 
+ --service-namespace – Set this value to elasticache. 
+ --scalable-dimension – Set this value to `elasticache:replication-group:Replicas`. 

**Example**  
In the following example, you delete a target-tracking scaling policy named `myscalablepolicy` from an ELC; cluster named `myscalablecluster`. 

For Linux, OS X, or Unix:

```
aws application-autoscaling delete-scaling-policy \
    --policy-name myscalablepolicy \
    --resource-id replication-group/myscalablecluster \
    --service-namespace elasticache \
    --scalable-dimension elasticache:replication-group:Replicas \
```

For Windows:

```
aws application-autoscaling delete-scaling-policy ^
    --policy-name myscalablepolicy ^
    --resource-id replication-group/myscalablecluster ^
    --service-namespace elasticache ^
    --scalable-dimension elasticache:replication-group:Replicas ^
```

**API**

To delete a scaling policy from your ElastiCache for Valkey and Redis OSS cluster, use the [DeleteScalingPolicy](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/ApplicationAutoScaling/latest/APIReference/API_DeleteScalingPolicy.html) Application Auto Scaling API operation with the following parameters: 
+ PolicyName – The name of the scaling policy. 
+ ResourceID – The resource identifier for the cluster. For this parameter, the resource type is ReplicationGroup and the unique identifier is the name of the cluster, for example `replication-group/myscalablecluster`. 
+ ServiceNamespace – Set this value to elasticache. 
+ ScalableDimension – Set this value to `elasticache:replication-group:Replicas`. 

In the following example, you delete a target-tracking scaling policy named `myscalablepolicy` from a cluster named `myscalablecluster` with the Application Auto Scaling API. 

```
POST / HTTP/1.1
>>>>>>> mainline
Host: autoscaling.us-east-2.amazonaws.com
Accept-Encoding: identity
Content-Length: 219
X-Amz-Target: AnyScaleFrontendService.DeleteScalingPolicy
X-Amz-Date: 20160506T182145Z
User-Agent: aws-cli/1.10.23 Python/2.7.11 Darwin/15.4.0 botocore/1.4.8
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1
Authorization: AUTHPARAMS
{
    "PolicyName": "myscalablepolicy",
    "ServiceNamespace": "elasticache",
    "ResourceId": "replication-group/myscalablecluster",
    "ScalableDimension": "elasticache:replication-group:Replicas"
}
```