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Data Source: aws_autoscaling_group#

Provides information about an Auto Scaling group.

Example Usage#

data "aws_autoscaling_group" "example" {
  name = "example-asg"
}

Argument Reference#

  • name - Specify the exact name of the desired Auto Scaling group.

Attribute Reference#

Supported attributes#

In addition to all arguments above, the following attributes are exported:

  • arn - The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the Auto Scaling group.
  • availability_zones - One or more availability zones for the group.
  • default_cool_down - The amount of time, in seconds, after a scaling activity completes before another scaling activity can start.
  • desired_capacity - The desired size of the group.
  • health_check_grace_period - The amount of time, in seconds, after which Auto Scaling group can perform a health check on its instances.
  • id - Name of the Auto Scaling group.
  • max_size - The maximum size of the group.
  • min_size - The minimum size of the group.
  • name - Name of the Auto Scaling group.
  • new_instances_protected_from_scale_in - Indicates whether new instances are protected from deletion when Auto Scaling group is scaled in.
  • status - The status of the Auto Scaling group when it is deleted.
  • vpc_zone_identifier - The IDs of the subnets in which instances are created.

Unsupported attributes#

~> Note These attributes may be present in the terraform.tfstate file, but they have preset values and cannot be specified in configuration files.

The following attributes are not currently supported:

enabled_metrics, health_check_type, launch_configuration, load_balancers, placement_group, service_linked_role_arn, target_group_arns, termination_policies.