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Use DescribeScalingPolicies with an AWS SDK or CLI

The following code examples show how to use DescribeScalingPolicies.

CLI
AWS CLI

To describe scaling policies

This example command describes the scaling policies for the ecs service namespace.

Command:

aws application-autoscaling describe-scaling-policies --service-namespace ecs

Output:

{
    "ScalingPolicies": [
        {
            "PolicyName": "web-app-cpu-gt-75",
            "ScalableDimension": "ecs:service:DesiredCount",
            "ResourceId": "service/default/web-app",
            "CreationTime": 1462561899.23,
            "StepScalingPolicyConfiguration": {
                "Cooldown": 60,
                "StepAdjustments": [
                    {
                        "ScalingAdjustment": 200,
                        "MetricIntervalLowerBound": 0.0
                    }
                ],
                "AdjustmentType": "PercentChangeInCapacity"
            },
            "PolicyARN": "arn:aws:autoscaling:us-west-2:012345678910:scalingPolicy:6d8972f3-efc8-437c-92d1-6270f29a66e7:resource/ecs/service/default/web-app:policyName/web-app-cpu-gt-75",
            "PolicyType": "StepScaling",
            "Alarms": [
                {
                    "AlarmName": "web-app-cpu-gt-75",
                    "AlarmARN": "arn:aws:cloudwatch:us-west-2:012345678910:alarm:web-app-cpu-gt-75"
                }
            ],
            "ServiceNamespace": "ecs"
        },
        {
            "PolicyName": "web-app-cpu-lt-25",
            "ScalableDimension": "ecs:service:DesiredCount",
            "ResourceId": "service/default/web-app",
            "CreationTime": 1462562575.099,
            "StepScalingPolicyConfiguration": {
                "Cooldown": 1,
                "StepAdjustments": [
                    {
                        "ScalingAdjustment": -50,
                        "MetricIntervalUpperBound": 0.0
                    }
                ],
                "AdjustmentType": "PercentChangeInCapacity"
            },
            "PolicyARN": "arn:aws:autoscaling:us-west-2:012345678910:scalingPolicy:6d8972f3-efc8-437c-92d1-6270f29a66e7:resource/ecs/service/default/web-app:policyName/web-app-cpu-lt-25",
            "PolicyType": "StepScaling",
            "Alarms": [
                {
                    "AlarmName": "web-app-cpu-lt-25",
                    "AlarmARN": "arn:aws:cloudwatch:us-west-2:012345678910:alarm:web-app-cpu-lt-25"
                }
            ],
            "ServiceNamespace": "ecs"
        }
    ]
}
PowerShell
Tools for PowerShell

Example 1: This cmdlet describe the Application Auto Scaling scaling policies for the specified service namespace.

Get-AASScalingPolicy -ServiceNamespace AppStream

Output:

Alarms                                   : {Appstream2-LabFleet-default-scale-out-Alarm}
CreationTime                             : 9/3/2019 2:48:15 AM
PolicyARN                                : arn:aws:autoscaling:us-west-2:012345678912:scalingPolicy:5659b069-b5cd-4af1-9f7f-3e956d36233e:resource/appstream/fleet/LabFleet:
                                           policyName/default-scale-out
PolicyName                               : default-scale-out
PolicyType                               : StepScaling
ResourceId                               : fleet/LabFleet
ScalableDimension                        : appstream:fleet:DesiredCapacity
ServiceNamespace                         : appstream
StepScalingPolicyConfiguration           : Amazon.ApplicationAutoScaling.Model.StepScalingPolicyConfiguration
TargetTrackingScalingPolicyConfiguration :

Alarms                                   : {Appstream2-LabFleet-default-scale-in-Alarm}
CreationTime                             : 9/3/2019 2:48:15 AM
PolicyARN                                : arn:aws:autoscaling:us-west-2:012345678912:scalingPolicy:5659b069-b5cd-4af1-9f7f-3e956d36233e:resource/appstream/fleet/LabFleet:
                                           policyName/default-scale-in
PolicyName                               : default-scale-in
PolicyType                               : StepScaling
ResourceId                               : fleet/LabFleet
ScalableDimension                        : appstream:fleet:DesiredCapacity
ServiceNamespace                         : appstream
StepScalingPolicyConfiguration           : Amazon.ApplicationAutoScaling.Model.StepScalingPolicyConfiguration
TargetTrackingScalingPolicyConfiguration :
Rust
SDK for Rust
Note

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async fn show_policies(client: &Client) -> Result<(), Error> {
    let response = client
        .describe_scaling_policies()
        .service_namespace(ServiceNamespace::Ec2)
        .send()
        .await?;
    println!("Auto Scaling Policies:");
    for policy in response.scaling_policies() {
        println!("{:?}\n", policy);
    }
    println!("Next token: {:?}", response.next_token());

    Ok(())
}