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Cancel an instance refresh using the AWS Management Console or AWS CLI

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Cancel an instance refresh using the AWS Management Console or AWS CLI - Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

You can cancel an instance refresh that is still in progress. You can't cancel it after it's finished.

Canceling an instance refresh does not roll back any instances that were already replaced. To roll back the changes to your instances, perform a rollback instead. For more information, see Undo changes with a manual or auto rollback.

Cancel an instance refresh (console)

To cancel an instance refresh
  1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/, and choose Auto Scaling Groups from the navigation pane.

  2. Select the check box next to the Auto Scaling group.

  3. On the Instance refresh tab, in Active instance refresh, choose Actions, Cancel.

  4. When prompted for confirmation, choose Confirm.

The status of the instance refresh is set to Cancelling. After the cancellation is complete, the status of the instance refresh is set to Cancelled.

Cancel an instance refresh (AWS CLI)

To cancel an instance refresh

Use the cancel-instance-refresh command from the AWS CLI and provide the Auto Scaling group name.

aws autoscaling cancel-instance-refresh --auto-scaling-group-name my-asg

Example output:

{ "InstanceRefreshId": "08b91cf7-8fa6-48af-b6a6-d227f40f1b9b" }
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