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Use PutNotificationConfiguration with a CLI

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Use PutNotificationConfiguration with a CLI - Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

The following code examples show how to use PutNotificationConfiguration.

CLI
AWS CLI

To add a notification

This example adds the specified notification to the specified Auto Scaling group.

aws autoscaling put-notification-configuration \
    --auto-scaling-group-name my-asg \
    --topic-arn arn:aws:sns:us-west-2:123456789012:my-sns-topic \
    --notification-type autoscaling:TEST_NOTIFICATION

This command produces no output.

For more information, see Getting Amazon SNS notifications when your Auto Scaling group scales in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide.

PowerShell
Tools for PowerShell

Example 1: This example configures the specified Auto Scaling group to send a notification to the specified SNS topic when it launches EC2 instances.

Write-ASNotificationConfiguration -AutoScalingGroupName my-asg -NotificationType "autoscaling:EC2_INSTANCE_LAUNCH" -TopicARN "arn:aws:sns:us-west-2:123456789012:my-topic"

Example 2: This example configures the specified Auto Scaling group to send a notification to the specified SNS topic when it launches or terminates EC2 instances.

Write-ASNotificationConfiguration -AutoScalingGroupName my-asg -NotificationType @("autoscaling:EC2_INSTANCE_LAUNCH", "autoscaling:EC2_INSTANCE_TERMINATE") -TopicARN "arn:aws:sns:us-west-2:123456789012:my-topic"
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AWS CLI

To add a notification

This example adds the specified notification to the specified Auto Scaling group.

aws autoscaling put-notification-configuration \
    --auto-scaling-group-name my-asg \
    --topic-arn arn:aws:sns:us-west-2:123456789012:my-sns-topic \
    --notification-type autoscaling:TEST_NOTIFICATION

This command produces no output.

For more information, see Getting Amazon SNS notifications when your Auto Scaling group scales in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide.

For a complete list of AWS SDK developer guides and code examples, see Using this service with an AWS SDK. This topic also includes information about getting started and details about previous SDK versions.

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