Turn off scheduled scaling for a scalable target

You can temporarily turn off scheduled scaling without deleting your scheduled actions. For more information, see Suspend and resume scaling for Application Auto Scaling.

To suspend scheduled scaling

Suspend scheduled scaling on a scalable target by using the register-scalable-target command with the --suspended-state option, and specifying true as the value of the ScheduledScalingSuspended attribute, as shown in the following example.

Linux, macOS, or Unix

aws application-autoscaling register-scalable-target --service-namespace rds \
  --scalable-dimension rds:cluster:ReadReplicaCount --resource-id cluster:my-db-cluster \
  --suspended-state '{"ScheduledScalingSuspended": true}'

Windows

aws application-autoscaling register-scalable-target --service-namespace rds ^
  --scalable-dimension rds:cluster:ReadReplicaCount --resource-id cluster:my-db-cluster ^
  --suspended-state "{\"ScheduledScalingSuspended\": true}"

Output

If the command succeeds, it returns the ARN of the scalable target. The following is example output.

{
    "ScalableTargetARN": "arn:aws:application-autoscaling:region:account-id:scalable-target/1234abcd56ab78cd901ef1234567890ab123"
}

To resume scheduled scaling

To resume scheduled scaling, run the register-scalable-target command again, specifying false as the value for ScheduledScalingSuspended.