# DescribeTerminationPolicyTypes
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Describes the termination policies supported by Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling.

For more information, see [Configure termination policies for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/ec2-auto-scaling-termination-policies.html) in the *Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide*.

## Response Elements
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The following element is returned by the service.

 **TerminationPolicyTypes.member.N**   
The termination policies supported by Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling: `OldestInstance`, `OldestLaunchConfiguration`, `NewestInstance`, `ClosestToNextInstanceHour`, `Default`, `OldestLaunchTemplate`, and `AllocationStrategy`.  
Type: Array of strings  
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1600.  
Pattern: `[\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\r\n\t]*` 

## Errors
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For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see [Common Error Types](CommonErrors.md).

 ** ResourceContention **   
You already have a pending update to an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling resource (for example, an Auto Scaling group, instance, or load balancer).    
 ** message **   

HTTP Status Code: 500

## Examples
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### Example
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This example illustrates one usage of DescribeTerminationPolicyTypes.

#### Sample Request
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```
https://autoscaling.amazonaws.com/?Action=DescribeTerminationPolicyTypes
&Version=2011-01-01
&AUTHPARAMS
```

#### Sample Response
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```
<DescribeTerminationPolicyTypesResponse xmlns="https://autoscaling.amazonaws.com/doc/2011-01-01/">
  <DescribeTerminationPolicyTypesResult>
    <TerminationPolicyTypes>
      <member>AllocationStrategy</member>
      <member>ClosestToNextInstanceHour</member>
      <member>Default</member>
      <member>NewestInstance</member>
      <member>OldestInstance</member>
      <member>OldestLaunchConfiguration</member>
     <member>OldestLaunchTemplate</member>
    </TerminationPolicyTypes>
  </DescribeTerminationPolicyTypesResult>
  <ResponseMetadata>
    <RequestId>7c6e177f-f082-11e1-ac58-3714bEXAMPLE</RequestId>
  </ResponseMetadata>
</DescribeTerminationPolicyTypesResponse>
```

## See Also
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For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
+  [AWS Command Line Interface V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/cli2/autoscaling-2011-01-01/DescribeTerminationPolicyTypes) 
+  [AWS SDK for .NET V4](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/DotNetSDKV4/autoscaling-2011-01-01/DescribeTerminationPolicyTypes) 
+  [AWS SDK for C\$1\$1](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForCpp/autoscaling-2011-01-01/DescribeTerminationPolicyTypes) 
+  [AWS SDK for Go v2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForGoV2/autoscaling-2011-01-01/DescribeTerminationPolicyTypes) 
+  [AWS SDK for Java V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaV2/autoscaling-2011-01-01/DescribeTerminationPolicyTypes) 
+  [AWS SDK for JavaScript V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaScriptV3/autoscaling-2011-01-01/DescribeTerminationPolicyTypes) 
+  [AWS SDK for Kotlin](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForKotlin/autoscaling-2011-01-01/DescribeTerminationPolicyTypes) 
+  [AWS SDK for PHP V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForPHPV3/autoscaling-2011-01-01/DescribeTerminationPolicyTypes) 
+  [AWS SDK for Python](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/boto3/autoscaling-2011-01-01/DescribeTerminationPolicyTypes) 
+  [AWS SDK for Ruby V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForRubyV3/autoscaling-2011-01-01/DescribeTerminationPolicyTypes)