AvailabilityZoneDistribution - Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
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AvailabilityZoneDistribution

Describes an Availability Zone distribution.

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CapacityDistributionStrategy

If launches fail in an Availability Zone, the following strategies are available. The default is balanced-best-effort.

  • balanced-only - If launches fail in an Availability Zone, Auto Scaling will continue to attempt to launch in the unhealthy zone to preserve a balanced distribution.

  • balanced-best-effort - If launches fail in an Availability Zone, Auto Scaling will attempt to launch in another healthy Availability Zone instead.

Type: String

Valid Values: balanced-only | balanced-best-effort

Required: No

See Also

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