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/AWS1/CL_ASC=>CREATELAUNCHCONFIGURATION()

About CreateLaunchConfiguration

Creates a launch configuration.

If you exceed your maximum limit of launch configurations, the call fails. To query this limit, call the DescribeAccountLimits API. For information about updating this limit, see Quotas for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide.

For more information, see Launch configurations in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide.

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling configures instances launched as part of an Auto Scaling group using either a launch template or a launch configuration. We strongly recommend that you do not use launch configurations. They do not provide full functionality for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling or Amazon EC2. For information about using launch templates, see Launch templates in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide.

Method Signature

IMPORTING

Required arguments:

IV_LAUNCHCONFIGURATIONNAME TYPE /AWS1/ASCXMLSTRINGMAXLEN255 /AWS1/ASCXMLSTRINGMAXLEN255

The name of the launch configuration. This name must be unique per Region per account.

Optional arguments:

IV_IMAGEID TYPE /AWS1/ASCXMLSTRINGMAXLEN255 /AWS1/ASCXMLSTRINGMAXLEN255

The ID of the Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that was assigned during registration. For more information, see Find a Linux AMI in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances.

If you specify InstanceId, an ImageId is not required.

IV_KEYNAME TYPE /AWS1/ASCXMLSTRINGMAXLEN255 /AWS1/ASCXMLSTRINGMAXLEN255

The name of the key pair. For more information, see Amazon EC2 key pairs and Amazon EC2 instances in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances.

IT_SECURITYGROUPS TYPE /AWS1/CL_ASCSECURITYGROUPS_W=>TT_SECURITYGROUPS TT_SECURITYGROUPS

A list that contains the security group IDs to assign to the instances in the Auto Scaling group. For more information, see Control traffic to your Amazon Web Services resources using security groups in the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide.

IV_CLASSICLINKVPCID TYPE /AWS1/ASCXMLSTRINGMAXLEN255 /AWS1/ASCXMLSTRINGMAXLEN255

Available for backward compatibility.

IT_CLASSICLINKVPCSECGROUPS TYPE /AWS1/CL_ASCCLICLINKVPCSECGR00=>TT_CLASSICLINKVPCSECGROUPS TT_CLASSICLINKVPCSECGROUPS

Available for backward compatibility.

IV_USERDATA TYPE /AWS1/ASCXMLSTRINGUSERDATA /AWS1/ASCXMLSTRINGUSERDATA

The user data to make available to the launched EC2 instances. For more information, see Instance metadata and user data (Linux) and Instance metadata and user data (Windows). If you are using a command line tool, base64-encoding is performed for you, and you can load the text from a file. Otherwise, you must provide base64-encoded text. User data is limited to 16 KB.

IV_INSTANCEID TYPE /AWS1/ASCXMLSTRINGMAXLEN19 /AWS1/ASCXMLSTRINGMAXLEN19

The ID of the instance to use to create the launch configuration. The new launch configuration derives attributes from the instance, except for the block device mapping.

To create a launch configuration with a block device mapping or override any other instance attributes, specify them as part of the same request.

For more information, see Create a launch configuration in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide.

IV_INSTANCETYPE TYPE /AWS1/ASCXMLSTRINGMAXLEN255 /AWS1/ASCXMLSTRINGMAXLEN255

Specifies the instance type of the EC2 instance. For information about available instance types, see Available instance types in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances.

If you specify InstanceId, an InstanceType is not required.

IV_KERNELID TYPE /AWS1/ASCXMLSTRINGMAXLEN255 /AWS1/ASCXMLSTRINGMAXLEN255

The ID of the kernel associated with the AMI.

We recommend that you use PV-GRUB instead of kernels and RAM disks. For more information, see User provided kernels in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances.

IV_RAMDISKID TYPE /AWS1/ASCXMLSTRINGMAXLEN255 /AWS1/ASCXMLSTRINGMAXLEN255

The ID of the RAM disk to select.

We recommend that you use PV-GRUB instead of kernels and RAM disks. For more information, see User provided kernels in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances.

IT_BLOCKDEVICEMAPPINGS TYPE /AWS1/CL_ASCBLOCKDEVICEMAPPING=>TT_BLOCKDEVICEMAPPINGS TT_BLOCKDEVICEMAPPINGS

The block device mapping entries that define the block devices to attach to the instances at launch. By default, the block devices specified in the block device mapping for the AMI are used. For more information, see Block device mappings in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances.

IO_INSTANCEMONITORING TYPE REF TO /AWS1/CL_ASCINSTANCEMONITORING /AWS1/CL_ASCINSTANCEMONITORING

Controls whether instances in this group are launched with detailed (true) or basic (false) monitoring.

The default value is true (enabled).

When detailed monitoring is enabled, Amazon CloudWatch generates metrics every minute and your account is charged a fee. When you disable detailed monitoring, CloudWatch generates metrics every 5 minutes. For more information, see Configure monitoring for Auto Scaling instances in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide.

IV_SPOTPRICE TYPE /AWS1/ASCSPOTPRICE /AWS1/ASCSPOTPRICE

The maximum hourly price to be paid for any Spot Instance launched to fulfill the request. Spot Instances are launched when the price you specify exceeds the current Spot price. For more information, see Request Spot Instances for fault-tolerant and flexible applications in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide.

Valid Range: Minimum value of 0.001

When you change your maximum price by creating a new launch configuration, running instances will continue to run as long as the maximum price for those running instances is higher than the current Spot price.

IV_IAMINSTANCEPROFILE TYPE /AWS1/ASCXMLSTRINGMAXLEN1600 /AWS1/ASCXMLSTRINGMAXLEN1600

The name or the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the instance profile associated with the IAM role for the instance. The instance profile contains the IAM role. For more information, see IAM role for applications that run on Amazon EC2 instances in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide.

IV_EBSOPTIMIZED TYPE /AWS1/ASCEBSOPTIMIZED /AWS1/ASCEBSOPTIMIZED

Specifies whether the launch configuration is optimized for EBS I/O (true) or not (false). The optimization provides dedicated throughput to Amazon EBS and an optimized configuration stack to provide optimal I/O performance. This optimization is not available with all instance types. Additional fees are incurred when you enable EBS optimization for an instance type that is not EBS-optimized by default. For more information, see Amazon EBS-optimized instances in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances.

The default value is false.

IV_ASSOCIATEPUBLICIPADDRESS TYPE /AWS1/ASCASSOCPUBLICIPADDRESS /AWS1/ASCASSOCPUBLICIPADDRESS

Specifies whether to assign a public IPv4 address to the group's instances. If the instance is launched into a default subnet, the default is to assign a public IPv4 address, unless you disabled the option to assign a public IPv4 address on the subnet. If the instance is launched into a nondefault subnet, the default is not to assign a public IPv4 address, unless you enabled the option to assign a public IPv4 address on the subnet.

If you specify true, each instance in the Auto Scaling group receives a unique public IPv4 address. For more information, see Provide network connectivity for your Auto Scaling instances using Amazon VPC in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide.

If you specify this property, you must specify at least one subnet for VPCZoneIdentifier when you create your group.

IV_PLACEMENTTENANCY TYPE /AWS1/ASCXMLSTRINGMAXLEN64 /AWS1/ASCXMLSTRINGMAXLEN64

The tenancy of the instance, either default or dedicated. An instance with dedicated tenancy runs on isolated, single-tenant hardware and can only be launched into a VPC. To launch dedicated instances into a shared tenancy VPC (a VPC with the instance placement tenancy attribute set to default), you must set the value of this property to dedicated.

If you specify PlacementTenancy, you must specify at least one subnet for VPCZoneIdentifier when you create your group.

Valid values: default | dedicated

IO_METADATAOPTIONS TYPE REF TO /AWS1/CL_ASCINSTANCEMETOPTIONS /AWS1/CL_ASCINSTANCEMETOPTIONS

The metadata options for the instances. For more information, see Configure the instance metadata options in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide.