GET

/#Action=SetInstanceProtection

http://autoscaling.{region}.amazonaws.com/#Action=SetInstanceProtection

Updates the instance protection settings of the specified instances. This operation cannot be called on instances in a warm pool. For more information about preventing instances that are part of an Auto Scaling group from terminating on scale in, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/ec2-auto-scaling-instance-protection.html">Using instance scale-in protection</a> in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide. If you exceed your maximum limit of instance IDs, which is 50 per Auto Scaling group, the call fails.

Access Token Required: API Key

Query Params

InstanceIdsarrayrequired

One or more instance IDs. You can specify up to 50 instances.

AutoScalingGroupNamestringrequired

The name of the Auto Scaling group.

ProtectedFromScaleInbooleanrequired

Indicates whether the instance is protected from termination by Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling when scaling in.

Actionstringrequired

Allowed:

Versionstringrequired

Allowed:

Responses

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "id": "abc123",
    "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
  }
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "VALIDATION_ERROR",
    "message": "Invalid request parameters"
  }
}

Language

CredentialsAPI KEY

API Key

Enter token below to save for later

cURL Request

1curl --request GET \
2     --url 'http://autoscaling.{region}.amazonaws.com/#Action=SetInstanceProtection' \
3     --header 'accept: application/json' \
4     --header 'content-type: application/json'

Response

1{
2  "success": true,
3  "data": {
4    "id": "abc123",
5    "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
6  }
7}