Configure overrides - Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
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Configure overrides

Overrides are changes you make to the properties of your launch template. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling supports overrides to the instance type property. That way, you can specify multiple instance types. You can also define multiple launch templates to allow instances with different CPU architectures (for example, Arm and x86) to launch in the same Auto Scaling group. To do so, you must add the Overrides structure to your mixed instances policy.

The Overrides structure allows you to define a set of parameters that Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling can use to launch instances, including:

  • InstanceType — The instance type. For more information about the instance types that are available, see Instance types in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances.

  • LaunchTemplateSpecification — (Optional) A launch template for an individual instance type. This property is currently limited to the Amazon CLI or an SDK, and is not available from the console.

  • WeightedCapacity — (Optional) The number of units that a provisioned instance of this type provides toward fulfilling the desired capacity of the Auto Scaling group. If you specify a weight value for one instance type, you must specify a weight value for all of them.

Note

As an alternative to specifying a list of instance types, you can specify a set of instance attributes to use as criteria for selecting the instance types your Auto Scaling group uses. This is known as attribute-based instance type selection. For more information, see Using attribute-based instance type selection.

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