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ScalingPolicy

Represents a scaling policy to use with Application Auto Scaling.

Contents

Alarms

The CloudWatch alarms associated with the scaling policy.

Type: Array of Alarm objects

Required: No

CreationTime

The Unix timestamp for when the scaling policy was created.

Type: Timestamp

Required: Yes

PolicyARN

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the scaling 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: Yes

PolicyName

The name of the scaling policy.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 256.

Pattern: \p{Print}+

Required: Yes

PolicyType

The scaling policy type.

Type: String

Valid Values: StepScaling | TargetTrackingScaling

Required: Yes

ResourceId

The identifier of the resource associated with the scaling policy. This string consists of the resource type and unique identifier.

  • ECS service - The resource type is service and the unique identifier is the cluster name and service name. Example: service/default/sample-webapp.

  • Spot fleet request - The resource type is spot-fleet-request and the unique identifier is the Spot fleet request ID. Example: spot-fleet-request/sfr-73fbd2ce-aa30-494c-8788-1cee4EXAMPLE.

  • EMR cluster - The resource type is instancegroup and the unique identifier is the cluster ID and instance group ID. Example: instancegroup/j-2EEZNYKUA1NTV/ig-1791Y4E1L8YI0.

  • AppStream 2.0 fleet - The resource type is fleet and the unique identifier is the fleet name. Example: fleet/sample-fleet.

  • DynamoDB table - The resource type is table and the unique identifier is the resource ID. Example: table/my-table.

  • DynamoDB global secondary index - The resource type is index and the unique identifier is the resource ID. Example: table/my-table/index/my-table-index.

  • Aurora DB cluster - The resource type is cluster and the unique identifier is the cluster name. Example: cluster:my-db-cluster.

  • Amazon SageMaker endpoint variants - The resource type is variant and the unique identifier is the resource ID. Example: endpoint/my-end-point/variant/KMeansClustering.

  • Custom resources are not supported with a resource type. This parameter must specify the OutputValue from the CloudFormation template stack used to access the resources. The unique identifier is defined by the service provider. More information is available in our GitHub repository.

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: Yes

ScalableDimension

The scalable dimension. This string consists of the service namespace, resource type, and scaling property.

  • ecs:service:DesiredCount - The desired task count of an ECS service.

  • ec2:spot-fleet-request:TargetCapacity - The target capacity of a Spot fleet request.

  • elasticmapreduce:instancegroup:InstanceCount - The instance count of an EMR Instance Group.

  • appstream:fleet:DesiredCapacity - The desired capacity of an AppStream 2.0 fleet.

  • dynamodb:table:ReadCapacityUnits - The provisioned read capacity for a DynamoDB table.

  • dynamodb:table:WriteCapacityUnits - The provisioned write capacity for a DynamoDB table.

  • dynamodb:index:ReadCapacityUnits - The provisioned read capacity for a DynamoDB global secondary index.

  • dynamodb:index:WriteCapacityUnits - The provisioned write capacity for a DynamoDB global secondary index.

  • rds:cluster:ReadReplicaCount - The count of Aurora Replicas in an Aurora DB cluster. Available for Aurora MySQL-compatible edition and Aurora PostgreSQL-compatible edition.

  • sagemaker:variant:DesiredInstanceCount - The number of EC2 instances for an Amazon SageMaker model endpoint variant.

  • custom-resource:ResourceType:Property - The scalable dimension for a custom resource provided by your own application or service.

Type: String

Valid Values: ecs:service:DesiredCount | ec2:spot-fleet-request:TargetCapacity | elasticmapreduce:instancegroup:InstanceCount | appstream:fleet:DesiredCapacity | dynamodb:table:ReadCapacityUnits | dynamodb:table:WriteCapacityUnits | dynamodb:index:ReadCapacityUnits | dynamodb:index:WriteCapacityUnits | rds:cluster:ReadReplicaCount | sagemaker:variant:DesiredInstanceCount | custom-resource:ResourceType:Property

Required: Yes

ServiceNamespace

The namespace of the AWS service that provides the resource or custom-resource for a resource provided by your own application or service. For more information, see AWS Service Namespaces in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.

Type: String

Valid Values: ecs | elasticmapreduce | ec2 | appstream | dynamodb | rds | sagemaker | custom-resource

Required: Yes

StepScalingPolicyConfiguration

A step scaling policy.

Type: StepScalingPolicyConfiguration object

Required: No

TargetTrackingScalingPolicyConfiguration

A target tracking scaling policy.

Type: TargetTrackingScalingPolicyConfiguration object

Required: No

See Also

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

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