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Put Scaling Policy

applicationautoscaling_put_scaling_policy R Documentation

Creates or updates a scaling policy for an Application Auto Scaling scalable target

Description

Creates or updates a scaling policy for an Application Auto Scaling scalable target.

Each scalable target is identified by a service namespace, resource ID, and scalable dimension. A scaling policy applies to the scalable target identified by those three attributes. You cannot create a scaling policy until you have registered the resource as a scalable target.

Multiple scaling policies can be in force at the same time for the same scalable target. You can have one or more target tracking scaling policies, one or more step scaling policies, or both. However, there is a chance that multiple policies could conflict, instructing the scalable target to scale out or in at the same time. Application Auto Scaling gives precedence to the policy that provides the largest capacity for both scale out and scale in. For example, if one policy increases capacity by 3, another policy increases capacity by 200 percent, and the current capacity is 10, Application Auto Scaling uses the policy with the highest calculated capacity (200% of 10 = 20) and scales out to 30.

We recommend caution, however, when using target tracking scaling policies with step scaling policies because conflicts between these policies can cause undesirable behavior. For example, if the step scaling policy initiates a scale-in activity before the target tracking policy is ready to scale in, the scale-in activity will not be blocked. After the scale-in activity completes, the target tracking policy could instruct the scalable target to scale out again.

For more information, see Target tracking scaling policies and Step scaling policies in the Application Auto Scaling User Guide.

If a scalable target is deregistered, the scalable target is no longer available to use scaling policies. Any scaling policies that were specified for the scalable target are deleted.

Usage

applicationautoscaling_put_scaling_policy(PolicyName, ServiceNamespace,
  ResourceId, ScalableDimension, PolicyType,
  StepScalingPolicyConfiguration,
  TargetTrackingScalingPolicyConfiguration)

Arguments

PolicyName

[required] The name of the scaling policy.

You cannot change the name of a scaling policy, but you can delete the original scaling policy and create a new scaling policy with the same settings and a different name.

ServiceNamespace

[required] The namespace of the Amazon Web Services service that provides the resource. For a resource provided by your own application or service, use custom-resource instead.

ResourceId

[required] The identifier of the resource associated with the scaling policy. 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.

ScalableDimension

[required] The scalable dimension. 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.

PolicyType

The scaling policy type. This parameter is required if you are creating a scaling policy.

The following policy types are supported:

TargetTrackingScaling—Not supported for Amazon EMR.

StepScaling—Not supported for DynamoDB, Amazon Comprehend, Lambda, Amazon Keyspaces, Amazon MSK, Amazon ElastiCache, or Neptune.

For more information, see Target tracking scaling policies and Step scaling policies in the Application Auto Scaling User Guide.

StepScalingPolicyConfiguration

A step scaling policy.

This parameter is required if you are creating a policy and the policy type is StepScaling.

TargetTrackingScalingPolicyConfiguration

A target tracking scaling policy. Includes support for predefined or customized metrics.

This parameter is required if you are creating a policy and the policy type is TargetTrackingScaling.

Value

A list with the following syntax: 

list(
  PolicyARN = "string",
  Alarms = list(
    list(
      AlarmName = "string",
      AlarmARN = "string"
    )
  )
)

Request syntax

svc$put_scaling_policy(
  PolicyName = "string",
  ServiceNamespace = "ecs"|"elasticmapreduce"|"ec2"|"appstream"|"dynamodb"|"rds"|"sagemaker"|"custom-resource"|"comprehend"|"lambda"|"cassandra"|"kafka"|"elasticache"|"neptune"|"workspaces",
  ResourceId = "string",
  ScalableDimension = "ecs:service:DesiredCount"|"ec2:spot-fleet-request:TargetCapacity"|"elasticmapreduce:instancegroup:InstanceCount"|"appstream:fleet:DesiredCapacity"|"dynamodb:table:ReadCapacityUnits"|"dynamodb:table:WriteCapacityUnits"|"dynamodb:index:ReadCapacityUnits"|"dynamodb:index:WriteCapacityUnits"|"rds:cluster:ReadReplicaCount"|"sagemaker:variant:DesiredInstanceCount"|"custom-resource:ResourceType:Property"|"comprehend:document-classifier-endpoint:DesiredInferenceUnits"|"comprehend:entity-recognizer-endpoint:DesiredInferenceUnits"|"lambda:function:ProvisionedConcurrency"|"cassandra:table:ReadCapacityUnits"|"cassandra:table:WriteCapacityUnits"|"kafka:broker-storage:VolumeSize"|"elasticache:replication-group:NodeGroups"|"elasticache:replication-group:Replicas"|"neptune:cluster:ReadReplicaCount"|"sagemaker:variant:DesiredProvisionedConcurrency"|"sagemaker:inference-component:DesiredCopyCount"|"workspaces:workspacespool:DesiredUserSessions",
  PolicyType = "StepScaling"|"TargetTrackingScaling",
  StepScalingPolicyConfiguration = list(
    AdjustmentType = "ChangeInCapacity"|"PercentChangeInCapacity"|"ExactCapacity",
    StepAdjustments = list(
      list(
        MetricIntervalLowerBound = 123.0,
        MetricIntervalUpperBound = 123.0,
        ScalingAdjustment = 123
      )
    ),
    MinAdjustmentMagnitude = 123,
    Cooldown = 123,
    MetricAggregationType = "Average"|"Minimum"|"Maximum"
  ),
  TargetTrackingScalingPolicyConfiguration = list(
    TargetValue = 123.0,
    PredefinedMetricSpecification = list(
      PredefinedMetricType = "DynamoDBReadCapacityUtilization"|"DynamoDBWriteCapacityUtilization"|"ALBRequestCountPerTarget"|"RDSReaderAverageCPUUtilization"|"RDSReaderAverageDatabaseConnections"|"EC2SpotFleetRequestAverageCPUUtilization"|"EC2SpotFleetRequestAverageNetworkIn"|"EC2SpotFleetRequestAverageNetworkOut"|"SageMakerVariantInvocationsPerInstance"|"ECSServiceAverageCPUUtilization"|"ECSServiceAverageMemoryUtilization"|"AppStreamAverageCapacityUtilization"|"ComprehendInferenceUtilization"|"LambdaProvisionedConcurrencyUtilization"|"CassandraReadCapacityUtilization"|"CassandraWriteCapacityUtilization"|"KafkaBrokerStorageUtilization"|"ElastiCachePrimaryEngineCPUUtilization"|"ElastiCacheReplicaEngineCPUUtilization"|"ElastiCacheDatabaseMemoryUsageCountedForEvictPercentage"|"NeptuneReaderAverageCPUUtilization"|"SageMakerVariantProvisionedConcurrencyUtilization"|"ElastiCacheDatabaseCapacityUsageCountedForEvictPercentage"|"SageMakerInferenceComponentInvocationsPerCopy"|"WorkSpacesAverageUserSessionsCapacityUtilization"|"SageMakerInferenceComponentConcurrentRequestsPerCopyHighResolution"|"SageMakerVariantConcurrentRequestsPerModelHighResolution",
      ResourceLabel = "string"
    ),
    CustomizedMetricSpecification = list(
      MetricName = "string",
      Namespace = "string",
      Dimensions = list(
        list(
          Name = "string",
          Value = "string"
        )
      ),
      Statistic = "Average"|"Minimum"|"Maximum"|"SampleCount"|"Sum",
      Unit = "string",
      Metrics = list(
        list(
          Expression = "string",
          Id = "string",
          Label = "string",
          MetricStat = list(
            Metric = list(
              Dimensions = list(
                list(
                  Name = "string",
                  Value = "string"
                )
              ),
              MetricName = "string",
              Namespace = "string"
            ),
            Stat = "string",
            Unit = "string"
          ),
          ReturnData = TRUE|FALSE
        )
      )
    ),
    ScaleOutCooldown = 123,
    ScaleInCooldown = 123,
    DisableScaleIn = TRUE|FALSE
  )
)

Examples

## Not run: 
# The following example applies a target tracking scaling policy with a
# predefined metric specification to an Amazon ECS service called web-app
# in the default cluster. The policy keeps the average CPU utilization of
# the service at 75 percent, with scale-out and scale-in cooldown periods
# of 60 seconds.
svc$put_scaling_policy(
  PolicyName = "cpu75-target-tracking-scaling-policy",
  PolicyType = "TargetTrackingScaling",
  ResourceId = "service/default/web-app",
  ScalableDimension = "ecs:service:DesiredCount",
  ServiceNamespace = "ecs",
  TargetTrackingScalingPolicyConfiguration = list(
    PredefinedMetricSpecification = list(
      PredefinedMetricType = "ECSServiceAverageCPUUtilization"
    ),
    ScaleInCooldown = 60L,
    ScaleOutCooldown = 60L,
    TargetValue = 75L
  )
)

## End(Not run)