Request Parameters Errors Examples See Also

DeleteAutoScalingGroup

Deletes the specified Auto Scaling group.

If the group has instances or scaling activities in progress, you must specify the option to force the deletion in order for it to succeed. The force delete operation will also terminate the EC2 instances. If the group has a warm pool, the force delete option also deletes the warm pool.

To remove instances from the Auto Scaling group before deleting it, call the DetachInstances API with the list of instances and the option to decrement the desired capacity. This ensures that Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling does not launch replacement instances.

To terminate all instances before deleting the Auto Scaling group, call the UpdateAutoScalingGroup API and set the minimum size and desired capacity of the Auto Scaling group to zero.

If the group has scaling policies, deleting the group deletes the policies, the underlying alarm actions, and any alarm that no longer has an associated action.

For more information, see Delete your Auto Scaling infrastructure 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 255.

Pattern: [\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\r\n\t]*

Required: Yes

ForceDelete

Specifies that the group is to be deleted along with all instances associated with the group, without waiting for all instances to be terminated. This action also deletes any outstanding lifecycle actions associated with the group.

Type: Boolean

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

ScalingActivityInProgress

The operation can't be performed because there are scaling activities in progress.

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

Example

This example illustrates one usage of DeleteAutoScalingGroup.

Sample Request


https://autoscaling.amazonaws.com/?Action=DeleteAutoScalingGroup
&AutoScalingGroupName=my-asg
&ForceDelete=true
&Version=2011-01-01
&AUTHPARAMS