SuspendProcesses
Suspends the specified automatic scaling processes, or all processes, for the specified Auto Scaling group.
If you suspend either the Launch
or Terminate
process types,
it can prevent other process types from functioning properly.
To resume processes that have been suspended, use ResumeProcesses.
For more information, see Suspending and Resuming Scaling Processes in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide.
Request Parameters
For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.
- AutoScalingGroupName
-
The name of the Auto Scaling group.
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
- ScalingProcesses.member.N
-
One or more of the following processes. If you omit this parameter, all processes are specified.
-
Launch
-
Terminate
-
HealthCheck
-
ReplaceUnhealthy
-
AZRebalance
-
AlarmNotification
-
ScheduledActions
-
AddToLoadBalancer
Type: Array of strings
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 255.
Pattern:
[\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\r\n\t]*
Required: No
-
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
- ResourceInUse
-
The operation can't be performed because the resource is in use.
HTTP Status Code: 400
Example
Sample Request
https://autoscaling.amazonaws.com/?Action=SuspendProcesses &AutoScalingGroupName=my-asg &ScalingProcesses.member.1=AlarmNotification &Version=2011-01-01 &AUTHPARAMS
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: