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AWS List of Auto Scaling Groups

Here’s a script to list Auto Scaling Groups from multiple AWS accounts. Accounts are in your AWS profiles.

#!/bin/bash
file='results-aws-asg.txt'
> $file
declare -a account=("default" "account-1" "account-2" "account-3" "account-4" "account-5")
declare -a region=("us-east-1" "us-east-2" "us-west-1" "us-west-2")
for i in "${account[@]}"
do
    echo '----------------------' >> $file
    echo 'Account: '$i >> $file
    for j in "${region[@]}"
    do
        echo 'Region: '$j >> $file
        aws autoscaling describe-auto-scaling-groups \
        --query "AutoScalingGroups[].[AutoScalingGroupName,LaunchConfigurationName]" \
        --profile $i \
        --region $j \
        --output text >> $file
    done
done

AWS Suspend Auto Scaling Group

You can administratively suspend a process in AWS Auto Scaling group for troubleshooting purposes.

Here are the available processes.

Terminate
Launch
AddToLoadBalancer
AlarmNotification
AZRebalance
HealthCheck
ReplaceUnhealthy
ScheduledActions

If you have difficulty launching a VM, check if any of these processes are suspended.

Removed them if applicable.

AWS CLI AutoScaler Update

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.

#!/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:

./autoscaling.sh 0
./autoscaling.sh 3