Excluding service quotas from Service Quotas Automatic Management - Service Quotas

Excluding service quotas from Service Quotas Automatic Management

You won't be notified of service quotas utilizations for AWS services added to the Automatic Management exclusion list.

You can exclude a service quota or list of quotas from being monitored by Automatic Management using the --exclusion-list. You'll need the service code and quota code to exclude the quota from Automatic Management in the AWS CLI.

Use the following procedure to exclude quotas from Automatic Management monitoring for your AWS account using either the AWS Management Console or AWS CLI.

AWS Management Console

  1. Open the Service Quotas console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/servicequotas/.

  2. In the navigation pane, select Automatic Management.

  3. Under Selected quotas for exceptions, add the AWS services you do not want monitored with Automatic Management. After making your selection, choose Add exceptions.

AWS CLI

See the following AWS CLI examples for adding supported AWS services to the Automatic Management exclusion list. You'll need to include the AWS service code and Service Quotas code in your commands.

  • Finding supported AWS services code

    • Use ListServices to list AWS services supported by Service Quotas. The response includes the ServiceCode and ServiceName for each service. For example, the ServiceCode for Amazon DynamoDB is dynamodb.

  • Finding Service Quotas codes

    • Use ListServiceQuotas to list AWS services Service Quotas codes. You can specify the service with the request parameter ServiceCode. The response includes the QuotaName, QuotaCode, Value, and QuotaAppliedAtLevel.

Example Starts Automatic Management and excludes Amazon DynamoDB quota

The following example both starts Automatic Management and excludes DynamoDB as a service quota that will not be monitored with Automatic Management. Replace the italicized placeholder text in the example command with your information.

aws service-quotas start-auto-management \
  --opt-in-level ACCOUNT \
  --opt-in-type NotifyOnly \
  --region ca-central-1 \
  --exclusion-list '{"dynamodb":["L-E123ABC4"]}'
Example Exclude Amazon DynamoDB quota from Automatic Management

The following example excludes DynamoDB from Automatic Management for an AWS account in the Canada (Central) AWS Region. Replace the italicized placeholder text in the example command with your information.

aws service-quotas update-auto-management \
  --opt-in-type NotifyOnly \
  --region ca-central-1 \
  --exclusion-list '{"dynamodb":["L-E123ABC4"]}'