Here’s the AWS CLI command to set the Auto Scaling Group to a certain number for the minimum, maximum, and desired number of instances.

<pre lang="bash">#!/bin/bash
# Format:  
# ./autoscaling.sh 3
# ./autoscaling.sh 0
int=$1
aws autoscaling update-auto-scaling-group \
--auto-scaling-group-name your-auto-scaling-group \
--min-size $int \
--max-size $int \
--desired-capacity $int \
--region us-east-2

Format:

<pre lang="bash">./autoscaling.sh 0
./autoscaling.sh 3