Schedule Capacity Change
A 2-step recipe with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling. We can help you get access.
Recipe · 2 steps
Schedule Capacity Change
with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling · Capacity & Performance Management
Put a scheduled scaling action on a group and verify it was created.
- Create or update the scheduled scaling action with the requested sizing and recurrence.
- Describe the group's scheduled actions to confirm the new action was registered and capture its ARN.
What you'll need to have ready
- autoScalingGroupName: The name of the Auto Scaling group.
- scheduledActionName: The name of this scheduled action.
- minSize: The minimum size of the group after the action runs.
- maxSize: The maximum size of the group after the action runs.
- desiredCapacity: The desired capacity of the group after the action runs.
- startTime: The start time in YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ format (UTC).
- recurrence: A cron expression for a recurring schedule (e.g. "30 0 1 1,6,12 *").
- timeZone: The IANA time zone for the cron expression (defaults to UTC if omitted).
For your developer
Arazzo workflow amazon-ec2-auto-scaling:schedule-capacity-change, 2 operations: PutScheduledUpdateGroupAction → DescribeScheduledActions. Specs on APIs.io.