EnterStandby
Moves the specified instances into the standby state.
If you choose to decrement the desired capacity of the Auto Scaling group, the instances can enter standby as long as the desired capacity of the Auto Scaling group after the instances are placed into standby is equal to or greater than the minimum capacity of the group.
If you choose not to decrement the desired capacity of the Auto Scaling group, the Auto Scaling group launches new instances to replace the instances on standby.
For more information, see Temporarily removing instances from your Auto Scaling group in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide.
Request Parameters
For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.
- AutoScalingGroupName
-
The name of the Auto Scaling group.
Type: String
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 255.
Pattern:
[\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\r\n\t]*
Required: Yes
- InstanceIds.member.N
-
The IDs of the instances. You can specify up to 20 instances.
Type: Array of strings
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 19.
Pattern:
[\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\r\n\t]*
Required: No
- ShouldDecrementDesiredCapacity
-
Indicates whether to decrement the desired capacity of the Auto Scaling group by the number of instances moved to
Standby
mode.Type: Boolean
Required: Yes
Response Elements
The following element is returned by the service.
- Activities.member.N
-
The activities related to moving instances into
Standby
mode.Type: Array of Activity objects
Errors
For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.
- ResourceContention
-
You already have a pending update to an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling resource (for example, an Auto Scaling group, instance, or load balancer).
HTTP Status Code: 500
Examples
Example
This example illustrates one usage of EnterStandby.
Sample Request
https://autoscaling.amazonaws.com/?Action=EnterStandby
&AutoScalingGroupName=my-asg
&InstanceIds.member.1=i-1234567890abcdef0
&ShouldDecrementDesiredCapacity=true
&Version=2011-01-01
&AUTHPARAMS
Sample Response
<EnterStandbyResponse xmlns="https://autoscaling.amazonaws.com/doc/2011-01-01/">
<EnterStandbyResult>
<Activities>
<member>
<ActivityId>12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789012</ActivityId>
<AutoScalingGroupName>my-asg</AutoScalingGroupName>
<Description>Moving EC2 instance to Standby: i-1234567890abcdef0</Description>
<Progress>50</Progress>
<Cause>At 2022-06-13T22:35:50Z instance i-1234567890abcdef0 was moved to standby in response to a user request, shrinking the capacity from 4 to 3.</Cause>
<StartTime>2022-06-13T22:35:50.884Z</StartTime>
<Details>{"Availability Zone":"us-east-1a","SubnetID":"subnet-057fa0918fEXAMPLE"}</Details>
<StatusCode>InProgress</StatusCode>
</member>
</Activities>
</EnterStandbyResult>
<ResponseMetadata>
<RequestId>7c6e177f-f082-11e1-ac58-3714bEXAMPLE</RequestId>
</ResponseMetadata>
</EnterStandbyResponse>
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific Amazon SDKs, see the following: