Document history
The following table describes important additions to the Application Auto Scaling documentation, beginning in January 2018. For notification about updates to this documentation, you can subscribe to the RSS feed.
| Change | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
Guide changes | Updated the Maximum number of scalable targets per resource type entry in the quotas documentation. See Quotas for Application Auto Scaling. | January 16, 2024 |
Support for SageMaker inference components | Use Application Auto Scaling to scale copies of an inference component. | November 29, 2023 |
Update to IAM service-linked role permissions | Application Auto Scaling updates the | November 13, 2023 |
Support for SageMaker Serverless provisioned concurrency | Use Application Auto Scaling to scale the provisioned concurrency of a serverless endpoint. | May 9, 2023 |
Categorize your scalable targets using tags | You can now assign metadata to your Application Auto Scaling scalable targets in the form of tags. See Tagging support for Application Auto Scaling. | March 20, 2023 |
Support for CloudWatch metric math | You can now use metric math when you create target tracking scaling policies. With metric math, you can query multiple CloudWatch metrics and use math expressions to create new time series based on these metrics. See Create a target tracking scaling policy for Application Auto Scaling using metric math. | March 14, 2023 |
Guide changes | New topic in the Application Auto Scaling User Guide helps you get started using AWS CloudShell with Application Auto Scaling. See Use AWS CloudShell to work with Application Auto Scaling from the command line. | February 17, 2023 |
Reasons for not scaling | You can now retrieve the machine-readable reasons for Application Auto Scaling not scaling your resources using the Application Auto Scaling API. See Scaling activities for Application Auto Scaling. | January 4, 2023 |
Guide changes | Updated the Maximum number of scalable targets per resource type entry in the quotas documentation. See Quotas for Application Auto Scaling. | May 6, 2022 |
Add support for Amazon Neptune clusters | Use Application Auto Scaling to scale the number of replicas in an Amazon Neptune DB cluster. For more information, see Amazon Neptune and Application Auto Scaling. The topic Application Auto Scaling updates to AWS managed policies has been updated to list a new managed policy for the integration with Neptune. | October 6, 2021 |
Application Auto Scaling now reports changes to its AWS managed policies | Beginning August 19, 2021, changes to managed policies are reported in the topic Application Auto Scaling updates to AWS managed policies. The first change listed is the addition of permissions needed for ElastiCache for Redis. | August 19, 2021 |
Add support for ElastiCache for Redis replication groups | Use Application Auto Scaling to scale the number of node groups and the number of replicas per node group for an ElastiCache for Redis replication group (cluster). For more information, see ElastiCache for Redis and Application Auto Scaling. | August 19, 2021 |
Guide changes | New IAM topics in the Application Auto Scaling User Guide help you troubleshoot access to Application Auto Scaling. For more information, see Identity and Access Management for Application Auto Scaling. Also added new example IAM permissions policies for actions on target services and Amazon CloudWatch. For more information, see Example policies for working with the AWS CLI or an SDK. | February 23, 2021 |
Add support for local time zones | You can now create scheduled actions in the local time zone. If your time zone observes daylight saving time, it automatically adjusts for Daylight Saving Time (DST). For more information, see Scheduled scaling. | February 2, 2021 |
Guide changes | A new tutorial in the Application Auto Scaling User Guide helps you understand how to use target tracking scaling policies and scheduled scaling to increase the availability of your application when using Application Auto Scaling. Also, a new topic explains how to trigger a notification when CloudWatch has detected any problems that might require your attention. | October 15, 2020 |
Add support for Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka cluster storage | Use a target tracking scaling policy to scale out the amount of broker storage associated with an Amazon MSK cluster. | September 30, 2020 |
Add support for Amazon Comprehend entity recognizer endpoints | Use Application Auto Scaling to scale the number of inference units provisioned for your Amazon Comprehend entity recognizer endpoints. | September 28, 2020 |
Add support for Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) tables | Use Application Auto Scaling to scale the provisioned throughput (read and write capacity) of an Amazon Keyspaces table. | April 23, 2020 |
New "Security" chapter | A new Security chapter in the
Application Auto Scaling User Guide helps you understand how to apply the shared
responsibility model | January 16, 2020 |
Minor updates | Various improvements and corrections. | January 15, 2020 |
Add notification functionality | Application Auto Scaling now sends events to Amazon EventBridge and notifications to your AWS Health Dashboard when certain actions occur. For more information, see Application Auto Scaling monitoring. | December 20, 2019 |
Add support for AWS Lambda functions | Use Application Auto Scaling to scale the provisioned concurrency of a Lambda function. | December 3, 2019 |
Add support for Amazon Comprehend document classification endpoints | Use Application Auto Scaling to scale the throughput capacity of an Amazon Comprehend document classification endpoint. | November 25, 2019 |
Add AppStream 2.0 support for target tracking scaling policies | Use target tracking scaling policies to scale the size of an AppStream 2.0 fleet. | November 25, 2019 |
Support for Amazon VPC endpoints | You can now establish a private connection between your VPC and Application Auto Scaling. For migration considerations and instructions, see Application Auto Scaling and interface VPC endpoints. | November 22, 2019 |
Suspend and resume scaling | Added support for suspending and resuming scaling. For more information, see Suspending and resuming scaling for Application Auto Scaling. | August 29, 2019 |
New section | The Setting up section has been added to the Application Auto Scaling documentation. Minor improvements and fixes have been made throughout the user guide. | June 28, 2019 |
Guide changes | Improved Application Auto Scaling documentation in the Scheduled scaling, Step scaling policies, and Target tracking scaling policies sections. | March 11, 2019 |
Add support for custom resources | Use Application Auto Scaling to scale custom resources provided by your own applications or services.
For more information, see our GitHub
repository | July 9, 2018 |
Add support for SageMaker endpoint variants | Use Application Auto Scaling to scale the number of endpoint instances provisioned for a variant. | February 28, 2018 |
The following table describes important changes to the Application Auto Scaling documentation before January 2018.
| Change | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Add support for Aurora Replicas | Use Application Auto Scaling to scale the desired count. For more information, see Using Amazon Aurora Auto Scaling with Aurora replicas in the Amazon RDS User Guide. | November 17, 2017 |
| Add support for scheduled scaling | Use scheduled scaling to scale resources at specific preset times or intervals. For more information, see Scheduled scaling for Application Auto Scaling. | November 8, 2017 |
| Add support for target tracking scaling policies | Use target tracking scaling policies to set up dynamic scaling for your application in just a few simple steps. For more information, see Target tracking scaling policies for Application Auto Scaling. | July 12, 2017 |
| Add support for provisioned read and write capacity for DynamoDB tables and global secondary indexes | Use Application Auto Scaling to scale provisioned throughput (read and write capacity). For more information, see Managing throughput capacity with DynamoDB Auto Scaling in the Amazon DynamoDB Developer Guide. | June 14, 2017 |
| Add support for AppStream 2.0 fleets | Use Application Auto Scaling to scale the size of the fleet. For more information, see Fleet Auto Scaling for AppStream 2.0 in the Amazon AppStream 2.0 Administration Guide. | March 23, 2017 |
| Add support for Amazon EMR clusters | Use Application Auto Scaling to scale the core and task nodes. For more information, see Using automatic scaling in Amazon EMR in the Amazon EMR Management Guide. | November 18, 2016 |
| Add support for Spot Fleets | Use Application Auto Scaling to scale the target capacity. For more information, see Automatic scaling for Spot fleet in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances. | September 1, 2016 |
| Add support for Amazon ECS services | Use Application Auto Scaling to scale the desired count. For more information, see Service Auto Scaling in the Amazon Elastic Container Service Developer Guide. | August 9, 2016 |
