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Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is designed to automatically launch and terminate EC2 instances based on user-defined scaling policies, scheduled actions, and health checks.

For more information, see the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide and the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling API Reference.

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Identifies the metrics to enable.

You can specify one or more of the following metrics:

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  • GroupDesiredCapacity

  • GroupInServiceInstances

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If you specify Granularity and don't specify any metrics, all metrics are enabled.

For more information, see Auto Scaling group metrics in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide.

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For more information, see Auto Scaling group metrics in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide.

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  • GroupMaxSize

  • GroupDesiredCapacity

  • GroupInServiceInstances

  • GroupPendingInstances

  • GroupStandbyInstances

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  • WarmPoolWarmedCapacity

  • WarmPoolPendingCapacity

  • WarmPoolTerminatingCapacity

  • WarmPoolTotalCapacity

  • GroupAndWarmPoolDesiredCapacity

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For more information, see Auto Scaling group metrics in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide.

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