POST
/#Action=SetInstanceProtection
http://autoscaling.{region}.amazonaws.com/#Action=SetInstanceProtection<p>Updates the instance protection settings of the specified instances. This operation cannot be called on instances in a warm pool.</p> <p>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 <i>Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide</i>.</p> <p>If you exceed your maximum limit of instance IDs, which is 50 per Auto Scaling group, the call fails.</p>
Access Token Required: API Key
Query Params
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
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cURL Request
1curl --request POST \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}