# Updating an Amazon ECS capacity provider
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When you use an Auto Scaling group as a capacity provider, you can modify the group's scaling policy.

**To update a capacity provider for the cluster (Amazon ECS console)**

1. Open the console at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/ecs/v2](https://console.aws.amazon.com/ecs/v2).

1. In the navigation pane, choose **Clusters**.

1. On the **Clusters** page, choose the cluster.

1. On the **Cluster : *name*** page, choose **Infrastructure**, and then choose **Update**.

1. On the **Create capacity providers** page, configure the following options.

   1. Under **Auto Scaling group**, under **Scaling policies**, configure the following options.
     + To have Amazon ECS manage the scale-in and scale-out actions, select **Turn on managed scaling**.
     + To prevent EC2 instances with running Amazon ECS tasks from being terminated, select **Turn on scaling protection**.
     + For **Set target capacity**, enter the target value for the CloudWatch metric used in the Amazon ECS-managed target tracking scaling policy.

1. Choose **Update**.