ScalingPolicy - Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
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ScalingPolicy

Describes a scaling policy.

Contents

AdjustmentType

Specifies how the scaling adjustment is interpreted (for example, an absolute number or a percentage). The valid values are ChangeInCapacity, ExactCapacity, and PercentChangeInCapacity.

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

Alarms.member.N

The CloudWatch alarms related to the policy.

Type: Array of Alarm objects

Required: No

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: No

Cooldown

The duration of the policy's cooldown period, in seconds.

Type: Integer

Required: No

Enabled

Indicates whether the policy is enabled (true) or disabled (false).

Type: Boolean

Required: No

EstimatedInstanceWarmup

The estimated time, in seconds, until a newly launched instance can contribute to the CloudWatch metrics.

Type: Integer

Required: No

MetricAggregationType

The aggregation type for the CloudWatch metrics. The valid values are Minimum, Maximum, and Average.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 32.

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

Required: No

MinAdjustmentMagnitude

The minimum value to scale by when the adjustment type is PercentChangeInCapacity.

Type: Integer

Required: No

MinAdjustmentStep

This member has been deprecated.

Available for backward compatibility. Use MinAdjustmentMagnitude instead.

Type: Integer

Required: No

PolicyARN

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the policy.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1600.

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

Required: No

PolicyName

The name of the scaling policy.

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

PolicyType

One of the following policy types:

  • TargetTrackingScaling

  • StepScaling

  • SimpleScaling (default)

  • PredictiveScaling

For more information, see Target tracking scaling policies and Step and simple scaling policies in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 64.

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

Required: No

PredictiveScalingConfiguration

A predictive scaling policy.

Type: PredictiveScalingConfiguration object

Required: No

ScalingAdjustment

The amount by which to scale, based on the specified adjustment type. A positive value adds to the current capacity while a negative number removes from the current capacity.

Type: Integer

Required: No

StepAdjustments.member.N

A set of adjustments that enable you to scale based on the size of the alarm breach.

Type: Array of StepAdjustment objects

Required: No

TargetTrackingConfiguration

A target tracking scaling policy.

Type: TargetTrackingConfiguration object

Required: No

See Also

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