SetDesiredCapacity - Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
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SetDesiredCapacity

Sets the size of the specified Auto Scaling group.

If a scale-in activity occurs as a result of a new DesiredCapacity value that is lower than the current size of the group, the Auto Scaling group uses its termination policy to determine which instances to terminate.

For more information, see Manual scaling 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

DesiredCapacity

The desired capacity is the initial capacity of the Auto Scaling group after this operation completes and the capacity it attempts to maintain.

Type: Integer

Required: Yes

HonorCooldown

Indicates whether Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling waits for the cooldown period to complete before initiating a scaling activity to set your Auto Scaling group to its new capacity. By default, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling does not honor the cooldown period during manual scaling activities.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

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

ScalingActivityInProgress

The operation can't be performed because there are scaling activities in progress.

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

Example

This example illustrates one usage of SetDesiredCapacity.

Sample Request

https://autoscaling.amazonaws.com/?Action=SetDesiredCapacity &AutoScalingGroupName=my-asg &HonorCooldown=false &DesiredCapacity=2 &Version=2011-01-01 &AUTHPARAMS

See Also

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