LifecycleHook - Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
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LifecycleHook

Describes a lifecycle hook. A lifecycle hook lets you create solutions that are aware of events in the Auto Scaling instance lifecycle, and then perform a custom action on instances when the corresponding lifecycle event occurs.

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AutoScalingGroupName

The name of the Auto Scaling group for the lifecycle hook.

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: No

DefaultResult

The action the Auto Scaling group takes when the lifecycle hook timeout elapses or if an unexpected failure occurs.

Valid values: CONTINUE | ABANDON

Type: String

Required: No

GlobalTimeout

The maximum time, in seconds, that an instance can remain in a wait state. The maximum is 172800 seconds (48 hours) or 100 times HeartbeatTimeout, whichever is smaller.

Type: Integer

Required: No

HeartbeatTimeout

The maximum time, in seconds, that can elapse before the lifecycle hook times out. If the lifecycle hook times out, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling performs the action that you specified in the DefaultResult property.

Type: Integer

Required: No

LifecycleHookName

The name of the lifecycle hook.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 255.

Pattern: [A-Za-z0-9\-_\/]+

Required: No

LifecycleTransition

The lifecycle transition.

Valid values: autoscaling:EC2_INSTANCE_LAUNCHING | autoscaling:EC2_INSTANCE_TERMINATING

Type: String

Required: No

NotificationMetadata

Additional information that is included any time Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling sends a message to the notification target.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 4000.

Pattern: [\u0009\u000A\u000D\u0020-\u007e]+

Required: No

NotificationTargetARN

The ARN of the target that Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling sends notifications to when an instance is in a wait state for the lifecycle hook.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 255.

Pattern: [\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\r\n\t]*

Required: No

RoleARN

The ARN of the IAM role that allows the Auto Scaling group to publish to the specified notification target (an Amazon SNS topic or an Amazon SQS queue).

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: No

See Also

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