Response Elements Errors Examples See Also

DescribeAccountLimits

Describes the current Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling resource quotas for your AWS account.

For information about requesting an increase, see Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Service Quotas in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide.

Response Elements

The following elements are returned by the service.

MaxNumberOfAutoScalingGroups

The maximum number of groups allowed for your AWS account. The default is 200 groups per AWS Region.

Type: Integer

MaxNumberOfLaunchConfigurations

The maximum number of launch configurations allowed for your AWS account. The default is 200 launch configurations per AWS Region.

Type: Integer

NumberOfAutoScalingGroups

The current number of groups for your AWS account.

Type: Integer

NumberOfLaunchConfigurations

The current number of launch configurations for your AWS account.

Type: Integer

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

Examples

Example

This example illustrates one usage of DescribeAccountLimits.

Sample Request


https://autoscaling.amazonaws.com/?Action=DescribeAccountLimits
&Version=2011-01-01
&AUTHPARAMS

Sample Response


<DescribeAccountLimitsResponse xmlns="http://autoscaling.amazonaws.com/doc/2011-01-01/">
  <DescribeAccountLimitsResult>
    <NumberOfLaunchConfigurations>5</NumberOfLaunchConfigurations>
    <MaxNumberOfLaunchConfigurations>200</MaxNumberOfLaunchConfigurations>
    <NumberOfAutoScalingGroups>10</NumberOfAutoScalingGroups>
    <MaxNumberOfAutoScalingGroups>200</MaxNumberOfAutoScalingGroups>
  </DescribeAccountLimitsResult>
  <ResponseMetadata>
    <RequestId>7c6e177f-f082-11e1-ac58-3714bEXAMPLE</RequestId>
  </ResponseMetadata>
</DescribeAccountLimitsResponse>