# DescribeAccountSettings
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 Describes the current Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling account settings for your account. Account settings are a framework that allows you to enable or disable features for your account. The framework also gives you visibility into features that will be enforced by a given date, providing a time window to prepare for backwards-incompatible changes. 

## Request Parameters
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 For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see [Common Parameters](CommonParameters.md).

 ** MaxRecords **   
 The maximum number of items to return with this call. The default value is `50` and the maximum value is `100`.   
Type: Integer  
Required: No

 ** Name **   
 The name of the account setting to describe. If you omit this parameter, all account settings are described.   
Type: String  
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 255.  
Pattern: `[A-Za-z0-9\-_\/]+`   
Required: No

 ** NextToken **   
 The token for the next set of items to return. (You received this token from a previous call.)   
Type: String  
Pattern: `[\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\r\n\t]*`   
Required: No

## Response Elements
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The following elements are returned by the service.

 ** NextToken **   
 A string that indicates that the response contains more items than can be returned in a single response. To receive additional items, specify this string for the `NextToken` value when requesting the next set of items. This value is `null` when there are no more items to return.   
Type: String  
Pattern: `[\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\r\n\t]*` 

 **Settings.member.N**   
 Information about the account settings.   
Type: Array of [AccountSetting](API_AccountSetting.md) objects

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

 ** InvalidNextToken **   
The `NextToken` value is not valid.    
 ** message **   

HTTP Status Code: 400

## 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/DescribeAccountSettings) 
+  [AWS SDK for .NET V4](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/DotNetSDKV4/autoscaling-2011-01-01/DescribeAccountSettings) 
+  [AWS SDK for C\+\+](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForCpp/autoscaling-2011-01-01/DescribeAccountSettings) 
+  [AWS SDK for Go v2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForGoV2/autoscaling-2011-01-01/DescribeAccountSettings) 
+  [AWS SDK for Java V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaV2/autoscaling-2011-01-01/DescribeAccountSettings) 
+  [AWS SDK for JavaScript V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaScriptV3/autoscaling-2011-01-01/DescribeAccountSettings) 
+  [AWS SDK for Kotlin](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForKotlin/autoscaling-2011-01-01/DescribeAccountSettings) 
+  [AWS SDK for PHP V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForPHPV3/autoscaling-2011-01-01/DescribeAccountSettings) 
+  [AWS SDK for Python (Boto3)](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/boto3/autoscaling-2011-01-01/DescribeAccountSettings) 
+  [AWS SDK for Ruby V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForRubyV3/autoscaling-2011-01-01/DescribeAccountSettings)