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AWS::ApplicationAutoScaling::ScalableTarget

The AWS::ApplicationAutoScaling::ScalableTarget resource specifies a resource that Application Auto Scaling can scale, such as an AWS::DynamoDB::Table or AWS::ECS::Service resource.

For more information, see Getting started in the Application Auto Scaling User Guide.

Note

If the resource that you want Application Auto Scaling to scale is not yet created in your account, add a dependency on the resource when registering it as a scalable target using the DependsOn attribute.

Syntax

To declare this entity in your AWS CloudFormation template, use the following syntax:

JSON


{
  "Type" : "AWS::ApplicationAutoScaling::ScalableTarget",
  "Properties" : {
      "MaxCapacity" : Integer,
      "MinCapacity" : Integer,
      "ResourceId" : String,
      "RoleARN" : String,
      "ScalableDimension" : String,
      "ScheduledActions" : [ ScheduledAction, ... ],
      "ServiceNamespace" : String,
      "SuspendedState" : SuspendedState
    }
}

YAML


Type: AWS::ApplicationAutoScaling::ScalableTarget
Properties:
  MaxCapacity: Integer
  MinCapacity: Integer
  ResourceId: String
  RoleARN: String
  ScalableDimension: String
  ScheduledActions: 
    - ScheduledAction
  ServiceNamespace: String
  SuspendedState: 
    SuspendedState

Properties

MaxCapacity

The maximum value that you plan to scale out to. When a scaling policy is in effect, Application Auto Scaling can scale out (expand) as needed to the maximum capacity limit in response to changing demand.

Required: Yes

Type: Integer

Update requires: No interruption

MinCapacity

The minimum value that you plan to scale in to. When a scaling policy is in effect, Application Auto Scaling can scale in (contract) as needed to the minimum capacity limit in response to changing demand.

Required: Yes

Type: Integer

Update requires: No interruption

ResourceId

The identifier of the resource associated with the scalable target. This string consists of the resource type and unique identifier.

ECS service - The resource type is service and the unique identifier is the cluster name and service name. Example: service/my-cluster/my-service.
Spot Fleet - The resource type is spot-fleet-request and the unique identifier is the Spot Fleet request ID. Example: spot-fleet-request/sfr-73fbd2ce-aa30-494c-8788-1cee4EXAMPLE.
EMR cluster - The resource type is instancegroup and the unique identifier is the cluster ID and instance group ID. Example: instancegroup/j-2EEZNYKUA1NTV/ig-1791Y4E1L8YI0.
AppStream 2.0 fleet - The resource type is fleet and the unique identifier is the fleet name. Example: fleet/sample-fleet.
DynamoDB table - The resource type is table and the unique identifier is the table name. Example: table/my-table.
DynamoDB global secondary index - The resource type is index and the unique identifier is the index name. Example: table/my-table/index/my-table-index.
Aurora DB cluster - The resource type is cluster and the unique identifier is the cluster name. Example: cluster:my-db-cluster.
SageMaker endpoint variant - The resource type is variant and the unique identifier is the resource ID. Example: endpoint/my-end-point/variant/KMeansClustering.
Custom resources are not supported with a resource type. This parameter must specify the OutputValue from the CloudFormation template stack used to access the resources. The unique identifier is defined by the service provider. More information is available in our GitHub repository.
Amazon Comprehend document classification endpoint - The resource type and unique identifier are specified using the endpoint ARN. Example: arn:aws:comprehend:us-west-2:123456789012:document-classifier-endpoint/EXAMPLE.
Amazon Comprehend entity recognizer endpoint - The resource type and unique identifier are specified using the endpoint ARN. Example: arn:aws:comprehend:us-west-2:123456789012:entity-recognizer-endpoint/EXAMPLE.
Lambda provisioned concurrency - The resource type is function and the unique identifier is the function name with a function version or alias name suffix that is not $LATEST. Example: function:my-function:prod or function:my-function:1.
Amazon Keyspaces table - The resource type is table and the unique identifier is the table name. Example: keyspace/mykeyspace/table/mytable.
Amazon MSK cluster - The resource type and unique identifier are specified using the cluster ARN. Example: arn:aws:kafka:us-east-1:123456789012:cluster/demo-cluster-1/6357e0b2-0e6a-4b86-a0b4-70df934c2e31-5.
Amazon ElastiCache replication group - The resource type is replication-group and the unique identifier is the replication group name. Example: replication-group/mycluster.
Neptune cluster - The resource type is cluster and the unique identifier is the cluster name. Example: cluster:mycluster.
SageMaker serverless endpoint - The resource type is variant and the unique identifier is the resource ID. Example: endpoint/my-end-point/variant/KMeansClustering.
SageMaker inference component - The resource type is inference-component and the unique identifier is the resource ID. Example: inference-component/my-inference-component.
Pool of WorkSpaces - The resource type is workspacespool and the unique identifier is the pool ID. Example: workspacespool/wspool-123456.

Required: Yes

Type: String

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

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 1600

Update requires: Replacement

RoleARN

Specify the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of an Identity and Access Management (IAM) role that allows Application Auto Scaling to modify the scalable target on your behalf. This can be either an IAM service role that Application Auto Scaling can assume to make calls to other AWS resources on your behalf, or a service-linked role for the specified service. For more information, see How Application Auto Scaling works with IAM in the Application Auto Scaling User Guide.

To automatically create a service-linked role (recommended), specify the full ARN of the service-linked role in your stack template. To find the exact ARN of the service-linked role for your AWS or custom resource, see the Service-linked roles topic in the Application Auto Scaling User Guide. Look for the ARN in the table at the bottom of the page.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: No interruption

ScalableDimension

The scalable dimension associated with the scalable target. This string consists of the service namespace, resource type, and scaling property.

ecs:service:DesiredCount - The task count of an ECS service.
elasticmapreduce:instancegroup:InstanceCount - The instance count of an EMR Instance Group.
ec2:spot-fleet-request:TargetCapacity - The target capacity of a Spot Fleet.
appstream:fleet:DesiredCapacity - The capacity of an AppStream 2.0 fleet.
dynamodb:table:ReadCapacityUnits - The provisioned read capacity for a DynamoDB table.
dynamodb:table:WriteCapacityUnits - The provisioned write capacity for a DynamoDB table.
dynamodb:index:ReadCapacityUnits - The provisioned read capacity for a DynamoDB global secondary index.
dynamodb:index:WriteCapacityUnits - The provisioned write capacity for a DynamoDB global secondary index.
rds:cluster:ReadReplicaCount - The count of Aurora Replicas in an Aurora DB cluster. Available for Aurora MySQL-compatible edition and Aurora PostgreSQL-compatible edition.
sagemaker:variant:DesiredInstanceCount - The number of EC2 instances for a SageMaker model endpoint variant.
custom-resource:ResourceType:Property - The scalable dimension for a custom resource provided by your own application or service.
comprehend:document-classifier-endpoint:DesiredInferenceUnits - The number of inference units for an Amazon Comprehend document classification endpoint.
comprehend:entity-recognizer-endpoint:DesiredInferenceUnits - The number of inference units for an Amazon Comprehend entity recognizer endpoint.
lambda:function:ProvisionedConcurrency - The provisioned concurrency for a Lambda function.
cassandra:table:ReadCapacityUnits - The provisioned read capacity for an Amazon Keyspaces table.
cassandra:table:WriteCapacityUnits - The provisioned write capacity for an Amazon Keyspaces table.
kafka:broker-storage:VolumeSize - The provisioned volume size (in GiB) for brokers in an Amazon MSK cluster.
elasticache:replication-group:NodeGroups - The number of node groups for an Amazon ElastiCache replication group.
elasticache:replication-group:Replicas - The number of replicas per node group for an Amazon ElastiCache replication group.
neptune:cluster:ReadReplicaCount - The count of read replicas in an Amazon Neptune DB cluster.
sagemaker:variant:DesiredProvisionedConcurrency - The provisioned concurrency for a SageMaker serverless endpoint.
sagemaker:inference-component:DesiredCopyCount - The number of copies across an endpoint for a SageMaker inference component.
workspaces:workspacespool:DesiredUserSessions - The number of user sessions for the WorkSpaces in the pool.

Required: Yes

Type: String

Update requires: Replacement

ScheduledActions

The scheduled actions for the scalable target. Duplicates aren't allowed.

Required: No

Type: Array of ScheduledAction

Update requires: No interruption

ServiceNamespace

The namespace of the AWS service that provides the resource, or a custom-resource.

Required: Yes

Type: String

Update requires: Replacement

SuspendedState

An embedded object that contains attributes and attribute values that are used to suspend and resume automatic scaling. Setting the value of an attribute to true suspends the specified scaling activities. Setting it to false (default) resumes the specified scaling activities.

Suspension Outcomes

For DynamicScalingInSuspended, while a suspension is in effect, all scale-in activities that are triggered by a scaling policy are suspended.
For DynamicScalingOutSuspended, while a suspension is in effect, all scale-out activities that are triggered by a scaling policy are suspended.
For ScheduledScalingSuspended, while a suspension is in effect, all scaling activities that involve scheduled actions are suspended.

Required: No

Type: SuspendedState

Update requires: No interruption

Return values

Ref

When the logical ID of this resource is provided to the Ref intrinsic function, Ref returns the CloudFormation-generated ID of the resource. For example: service/ecsStack-MyECSCluster-AB12CDE3F4GH/ecsStack-MyECSService-AB12CDE3F4GH|ecs:service:DesiredCount|ecs.

CloudFormation uses the following format to generate the ID: service/resource_ID|scalable_dimension|service_namespace.

For more information about using the Ref function, see Ref.

Fn::GetAtt

The Fn::GetAtt intrinsic function returns a value for a specified attribute of this type. The following are the available attributes and sample return values.

For more information about using the Fn::GetAtt intrinsic function, see Fn::GetAtt.

Examples

Each scalable target has a service namespace, scalable dimension, and resource ID, as well as values for minimum and maximum capacity.

For more sample template snippets, see Configure Application Auto Scaling resources. This section also provides examples of scheduled actions.

Register a scalable target

The following example creates a scalable target for an AWS::Cassandra::Table resource. Application Auto Scaling can scale the write capacity throughput at a minimum of 1 capacity unit and a maximum of 20. To register a different resource supported by Application Auto Scaling, specify its namespace in ServiceNamespace, its scalable dimension in ScalableDimension, its resource ID in ResourceId, and its service-linked role in RoleARN.

Note

The RoleArn property references a service-linked role that is created for you after you use Application Auto Scaling with the specified resource for the first time.

JSON


{
  "ScalableTarget":{
    "Type":"AWS::ApplicationAutoScaling::ScalableTarget",
    "Properties":{
      "MaxCapacity":20,
      "MinCapacity":1,
      "RoleARN":{
        "Fn::Sub":"arn:aws:iam::${AWS::AccountId}:role/aws-service-role/cassandra.application-autoscaling.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForApplicationAutoScaling_CassandraTable"
      },
      "ServiceNamespace":"cassandra",
      "ScalableDimension":"cassandra:table:WriteCapacityUnits",
      "ResourceId":"keyspace/mykeyspace/table/mytable"
    }
  }
}

YAML


ScalableTarget:
  Type: AWS::ApplicationAutoScaling::ScalableTarget
  Properties:
    MaxCapacity: 20
    MinCapacity: 1
    RoleARN: 
      Fn::Sub: 'arn:aws:iam::${AWS::AccountId}:role/aws-service-role/cassandra.application-autoscaling.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForApplicationAutoScaling_CassandraTable'
    ServiceNamespace: cassandra
    ScalableDimension: cassandra:table:WriteCapacityUnits
    ResourceId: keyspace/mykeyspace/table/mytable