get-auto-scaling-group-recommendations¶

Description¶

Returns Auto Scaling group recommendations.

Compute Optimizer generates recommendations for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups that meet a specific set of requirements. For more information, see the Supported resources and requirements in the Compute Optimizer User Guide .

Synopsis¶

  get-auto-scaling-group-recommendations
[--account-ids <value>]
[--auto-scaling-group-arns <value>]
[--next-token <value>]
[--max-results <value>]
[--filters <value>]
[--recommendation-preferences <value>]
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]

Options¶

--account-ids (list)

The ID of the Amazon Web Services account for which to return Auto Scaling group recommendations.

If your account is the management account of an organization, use this parameter to specify the member account for which you want to return Auto Scaling group recommendations.

Only one account ID can be specified per request.

(string)

Syntax:

"string" "string" ...

--auto-scaling-group-arns (list)

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the Auto Scaling groups for which to return recommendations.

(string)

Syntax:

"string" "string" ...

--next-token (string)

The token to advance to the next page of Auto Scaling group recommendations.

--max-results (integer)

The maximum number of Auto Scaling group recommendations to return with a single request.

To retrieve the remaining results, make another request with the returned nextToken value.

--filters (list)

An array of objects to specify a filter that returns a more specific list of Auto Scaling group recommendations.

(structure)

Describes a filter that returns a more specific list of recommendations. Use this filter with the GetAutoScalingGroupRecommendations and GetEC2InstanceRecommendations actions.

You can use EBSFilter with the GetEBSVolumeRecommendations action, LambdaFunctionRecommendationFilter with the GetLambdaFunctionRecommendations action, and JobFilter with the DescribeRecommendationExportJobs action.

name -> (string)

The name of the filter.

Specify Finding to return recommendations with a specific finding classification (for example, Underprovisioned ).

Specify RecommendationSourceType to return recommendations of a specific resource type (for example, Ec2Instance ).

Specify FindingReasonCodes to return recommendations with a specific finding reason code (for example, CPUUnderprovisioned ).

values -> (list)

The value of the filter.

The valid values for this parameter are as follows, depending on what you specify for the name parameter and the resource type that you wish to filter results for:

Specify Optimized or NotOptimized if you specify the name parameter as Finding and you want to filter results for Auto Scaling groups.

Specify Underprovisioned , Overprovisioned , or Optimized if you specify the name parameter as Finding and you want to filter results for EC2 instances.

Specify Ec2Instance or AutoScalingGroup if you specify the name parameter as RecommendationSourceType .

Specify one of the following options if you specify the name parameter as FindingReasonCodes :

**CPUOverprovisioned ** — The instance’s CPU configuration can be sized down while still meeting the performance requirements of your workload.

**CPUUnderprovisioned ** — The instance’s CPU configuration doesn’t meet the performance requirements of your workload and there is an alternative instance type that provides better CPU performance.

**MemoryOverprovisioned ** — The instance’s memory configuration can be sized down while still meeting the performance requirements of your workload.

**MemoryUnderprovisioned ** — The instance’s memory configuration doesn’t meet the performance requirements of your workload and there is an alternative instance type that provides better memory performance.

**EBSThroughputOverprovisioned ** — The instance’s EBS throughput configuration can be sized down while still meeting the performance requirements of your workload.

**EBSThroughputUnderprovisioned ** — The instance’s EBS throughput configuration doesn’t meet the performance requirements of your workload and there is an alternative instance type that provides better EBS throughput performance.

**EBSIOPSOverprovisioned ** — The instance’s EBS IOPS configuration can be sized down while still meeting the performance requirements of your workload.

**EBSIOPSUnderprovisioned ** — The instance’s EBS IOPS configuration doesn’t meet the performance requirements of your workload and there is an alternative instance type that provides better EBS IOPS performance.

**NetworkBandwidthOverprovisioned ** — The instance’s network bandwidth configuration can be sized down while still meeting the performance requirements of your workload.

**NetworkBandwidthUnderprovisioned ** — The instance’s network bandwidth configuration doesn’t meet the performance requirements of your workload and there is an alternative instance type that provides better network bandwidth performance. This finding reason happens when the NetworkIn or NetworkOut performance of an instance is impacted.

**NetworkPPSOverprovisioned ** — The instance’s network PPS (packets per second) configuration can be sized down while still meeting the performance requirements of your workload.

**NetworkPPSUnderprovisioned ** — The instance’s network PPS (packets per second) configuration doesn’t meet the performance requirements of your workload and there is an alternative instance type that provides better network PPS performance.

**DiskIOPSOverprovisioned ** — The instance’s disk IOPS configuration can be sized down while still meeting the performance requirements of your workload.

**DiskIOPSUnderprovisioned ** — The instance’s disk IOPS configuration doesn’t meet the performance requirements of your workload and there is an alternative instance type that provides better disk IOPS performance.

**DiskThroughputOverprovisioned ** — The instance’s disk throughput configuration can be sized down while still meeting the performance requirements of your workload.

**DiskThroughputUnderprovisioned ** — The instance’s disk throughput configuration doesn’t meet the performance requirements of your workload and there is an alternative instance type that provides better disk throughput performance.

(string)

Shorthand Syntax:

name=string,values=string,string ...

JSON Syntax:

[
  {
    "name": "Finding"|"FindingReasonCodes"|"RecommendationSourceType",
    "values": ["string", ...]
  }
  ...
]

--recommendation-preferences (structure)

An object to specify the preferences for the Auto Scaling group recommendations to return in the response.

cpuVendorArchitectures -> (list)

Specifies the CPU vendor and architecture for Amazon EC2 instance and Auto Scaling group recommendations.

For example, when you specify AWS_ARM64 with:

A GetEC2InstanceRecommendations or GetAutoScalingGroupRecommendations request, Compute Optimizer returns recommendations that consist of Graviton2 instance types only.

A GetEC2RecommendationProjectedMetrics request, Compute Optimizer returns projected utilization metrics for Graviton2 instance type recommendations only.

A ExportEC2InstanceRecommendations or ExportAutoScalingGroupRecommendations request, Compute Optimizer exports recommendations that consist of Graviton2 instance types only.

(string)

Shorthand Syntax:

cpuVendorArchitectures=string,string

JSON Syntax:

{
  "cpuVendorArchitectures": ["AWS_ARM64"|"CURRENT", ...]
}

--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml (string) Reads arguments from the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, those values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally. This may not be specified along with --cli-input-yaml.

--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. Similarly, if provided yaml-input it will print a sample input YAML that can be used with --cli-input-yaml. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command.

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Output¶

nextToken -> (string)

The token to use to advance to the next page of Auto Scaling group recommendations.

This value is null when there are no more pages of Auto Scaling group recommendations to return.

autoScalingGroupRecommendations -> (list)

An array of objects that describe Auto Scaling group recommendations.

(structure)

Describes an Auto Scaling group recommendation.

accountId -> (string)

The Amazon Web Services account ID of the Auto Scaling group.

autoScalingGroupArn -> (string)

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the Auto Scaling group.

autoScalingGroupName -> (string)

The name of the Auto Scaling group.

finding -> (string)

The finding classification of the Auto Scaling group.

Findings for Auto Scaling groups include:

**NotOptimized ** —An Auto Scaling group is considered not optimized when Compute Optimizer identifies a recommendation that can provide better performance for your workload.

**Optimized ** —An Auto Scaling group is considered optimized when Compute Optimizer determines that the group is correctly provisioned to run your workload based on the chosen instance type. For optimized resources, Compute Optimizer might recommend a new generation instance type.

utilizationMetrics -> (list)

An array of objects that describe the utilization metrics of the Auto Scaling group.

(structure)

Describes a utilization metric of a resource, such as an Amazon EC2 instance.

Compare the utilization metric data of your resource against its projected utilization metric data to determine the performance difference between your current resource and the recommended option.

name -> (string)

The name of the utilization metric.

The following utilization metrics are available:

Cpu - The percentage of allocated EC2 compute units that are currently in use on the instance. This metric identifies the processing power required to run an application on the instance. Depending on the instance type, tools in your operating system can show a lower percentage than CloudWatch when the instance is not allocated a full processor core. Units: Percent

Memory - The percentage of memory that is currently in use on the instance. This metric identifies the amount of memory required to run an application on the instance. Units: Percent

Note

The Memory metric is returned only for resources that have the unified CloudWatch agent installed on them. For more information, see Enabling Memory Utilization with the CloudWatch Agent .

EBS_READ_OPS_PER_SECOND - The completed read operations from all EBS volumes attached to the instance in a specified period of time. Unit: Count

EBS_WRITE_OPS_PER_SECOND - The completed write operations to all EBS volumes attached to the instance in a specified period of time. Unit: Count

EBS_READ_BYTES_PER_SECOND - The bytes read from all EBS volumes attached to the instance in a specified period of time. Unit: Bytes

EBS_WRITE_BYTES_PER_SECOND - The bytes written to all EBS volumes attached to the instance in a specified period of time. Unit: Bytes

DISK_READ_OPS_PER_SECOND - The completed read operations from all instance store volumes available to the instance in a specified period of time. If there are no instance store volumes, either the value is 0 or the metric is not reported.

DISK_WRITE_OPS_PER_SECOND - The completed write operations from all instance store volumes available to the instance in a specified period of time. If there are no instance store volumes, either the value is 0 or the metric is not reported.

DISK_READ_BYTES_PER_SECOND - The bytes read from all instance store volumes available to the instance. This metric is used to determine the volume of the data the application reads from the disk of the instance. This can be used to determine the speed of the application. If there are no instance store volumes, either the value is 0 or the metric is not reported.

DISK_WRITE_BYTES_PER_SECOND - The bytes written to all instance store volumes available to the instance. This metric is used to determine the volume of the data the application writes onto the disk of the instance. This can be used to determine the speed of the application. If there are no instance store volumes, either the value is 0 or the metric is not reported.

NETWORK_IN_BYTES_PER_SECOND - The number of bytes received by the instance on all network interfaces. This metric identifies the volume of incoming network traffic to a single instance.

NETWORK_OUT_BYTES_PER_SECOND - The number of bytes sent out by the instance on all network interfaces. This metric identifies the volume of outgoing network traffic from a single instance.

NETWORK_PACKETS_IN_PER_SECOND - The number of packets received by the instance on all network interfaces. This metric identifies the volume of incoming traffic in terms of the number of packets on a single instance.

NETWORK_PACKETS_OUT_PER_SECOND - The number of packets sent out by the instance on all network interfaces. This metric identifies the volume of outgoing traffic in terms of the number of packets on a single instance.

statistic -> (string)

The statistic of the utilization metric.

The Compute Optimizer API, Command Line Interface (CLI), and SDKs return utilization metrics using only the Maximum statistic, which is the highest value observed during the specified period.

The Compute Optimizer console displays graphs for some utilization metrics using the Average statistic, which is the value of Sum / SampleCount during the specified period. For more information, see Viewing resource recommendations in the Compute Optimizer User Guide . You can also get averaged utilization metric data for your resources using Amazon CloudWatch. For more information, see the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide .

value -> (double)

The value of the utilization metric.

lookBackPeriodInDays -> (double)

The number of days for which utilization metrics were analyzed for the Auto Scaling group.

currentConfiguration -> (structure)

An array of objects that describe the current configuration of the Auto Scaling group.

desiredCapacity -> (integer)

The desired capacity, or number of instances, for the Auto Scaling group.

minSize -> (integer)

The minimum size, or minimum number of instances, for the Auto Scaling group.

maxSize -> (integer)

The maximum size, or maximum number of instances, for the Auto Scaling group.

instanceType -> (string)

The instance type for the Auto Scaling group.

recommendationOptions -> (list)

An array of objects that describe the recommendation options for the Auto Scaling group.

(structure)

Describes a recommendation option for an Auto Scaling group.

configuration -> (structure)

An array of objects that describe an Auto Scaling group configuration.

desiredCapacity -> (integer)

The desired capacity, or number of instances, for the Auto Scaling group.

minSize -> (integer)

The minimum size, or minimum number of instances, for the Auto Scaling group.

maxSize -> (integer)

The maximum size, or maximum number of instances, for the Auto Scaling group.

instanceType -> (string)

The instance type for the Auto Scaling group.

projectedUtilizationMetrics -> (list)

An array of objects that describe the projected utilization metrics of the Auto Scaling group recommendation option.

Note

The Cpu and Memory metrics are the only projected utilization metrics returned. Additionally, the Memory metric is returned only for resources that have the unified CloudWatch agent installed on them. For more information, see Enabling Memory Utilization with the CloudWatch Agent .

(structure)

Describes a utilization metric of a resource, such as an Amazon EC2 instance.

Compare the utilization metric data of your resource against its projected utilization metric data to determine the performance difference between your current resource and the recommended option.

name -> (string)

The name of the utilization metric.

The following utilization metrics are available:

Cpu - The percentage of allocated EC2 compute units that are currently in use on the instance. This metric identifies the processing power required to run an application on the instance. Depending on the instance type, tools in your operating system can show a lower percentage than CloudWatch when the instance is not allocated a full processor core. Units: Percent

Memory - The percentage of memory that is currently in use on the instance. This metric identifies the amount of memory required to run an application on the instance. Units: Percent

Note

The Memory metric is returned only for resources that have the unified CloudWatch agent installed on them. For more information, see Enabling Memory Utilization with the CloudWatch Agent .

EBS_READ_OPS_PER_SECOND - The completed read operations from all EBS volumes attached to the instance in a specified period of time. Unit: Count

EBS_WRITE_OPS_PER_SECOND - The completed write operations to all EBS volumes attached to the instance in a specified period of time. Unit: Count

EBS_READ_BYTES_PER_SECOND - The bytes read from all EBS volumes attached to the instance in a specified period of time. Unit: Bytes

EBS_WRITE_BYTES_PER_SECOND - The bytes written to all EBS volumes attached to the instance in a specified period of time. Unit: Bytes

DISK_READ_OPS_PER_SECOND - The completed read operations from all instance store volumes available to the instance in a specified period of time. If there are no instance store volumes, either the value is 0 or the metric is not reported.

DISK_WRITE_OPS_PER_SECOND - The completed write operations from all instance store volumes available to the instance in a specified period of time. If there are no instance store volumes, either the value is 0 or the metric is not reported.

DISK_READ_BYTES_PER_SECOND - The bytes read from all instance store volumes available to the instance. This metric is used to determine the volume of the data the application reads from the disk of the instance. This can be used to determine the speed of the application. If there are no instance store volumes, either the value is 0 or the metric is not reported.

DISK_WRITE_BYTES_PER_SECOND - The bytes written to all instance store volumes available to the instance. This metric is used to determine the volume of the data the application writes onto the disk of the instance. This can be used to determine the speed of the application. If there are no instance store volumes, either the value is 0 or the metric is not reported.

NETWORK_IN_BYTES_PER_SECOND - The number of bytes received by the instance on all network interfaces. This metric identifies the volume of incoming network traffic to a single instance.

NETWORK_OUT_BYTES_PER_SECOND - The number of bytes sent out by the instance on all network interfaces. This metric identifies the volume of outgoing network traffic from a single instance.

NETWORK_PACKETS_IN_PER_SECOND - The number of packets received by the instance on all network interfaces. This metric identifies the volume of incoming traffic in terms of the number of packets on a single instance.

NETWORK_PACKETS_OUT_PER_SECOND - The number of packets sent out by the instance on all network interfaces. This metric identifies the volume of outgoing traffic in terms of the number of packets on a single instance.

statistic -> (string)

The statistic of the utilization metric.

The Compute Optimizer API, Command Line Interface (CLI), and SDKs return utilization metrics using only the Maximum statistic, which is the highest value observed during the specified period.

The Compute Optimizer console displays graphs for some utilization metrics using the Average statistic, which is the value of Sum / SampleCount during the specified period. For more information, see Viewing resource recommendations in the Compute Optimizer User Guide . You can also get averaged utilization metric data for your resources using Amazon CloudWatch. For more information, see the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide .

value -> (double)

The value of the utilization metric.

performanceRisk -> (double)

The performance risk of the Auto Scaling group configuration recommendation.

Performance risk indicates the likelihood of the recommended instance type not meeting the resource needs of your workload. Compute Optimizer calculates an individual performance risk score for each specification of the recommended instance, including CPU, memory, EBS throughput, EBS IOPS, disk throughput, disk IOPS, network throughput, and network PPS. The performance risk of the recommended instance is calculated as the maximum performance risk score across the analyzed resource specifications.

The value ranges from 0 - 4 , with 0 meaning that the recommended resource is predicted to always provide enough hardware capability. The higher the performance risk is, the more likely you should validate whether the recommendation will meet the performance requirements of your workload before migrating your resource.

rank -> (integer)

The rank of the Auto Scaling group recommendation option.

The top recommendation option is ranked as 1 .

savingsOpportunity -> (structure)

An object that describes the savings opportunity for the Auto Scaling group recommendation option. Savings opportunity includes the estimated monthly savings amount and percentage.

savingsOpportunityPercentage -> (double)

The estimated monthly savings possible as a percentage of monthly cost by adopting Compute Optimizer recommendations for a given resource.

estimatedMonthlySavings -> (structure)

An object that describes the estimated monthly savings amount possible, based on On-Demand instance pricing, by adopting Compute Optimizer recommendations for a given resource.

currency -> (string)

The currency of the estimated monthly savings.

value -> (double)

The value of the estimated monthly savings.

migrationEffort -> (string)

The level of effort required to migrate from the current instance type to the recommended instance type.

For example, the migration effort is Low if Amazon EMR is the inferred workload type and an Amazon Web Services Graviton instance type is recommended. The migration effort is Medium if a workload type couldn’t be inferred but an Amazon Web Services Graviton instance type is recommended. The migration effort is VeryLow if both the current and recommended instance types are of the same CPU architecture.

lastRefreshTimestamp -> (timestamp)

The timestamp of when the Auto Scaling group recommendation was last generated.

currentPerformanceRisk -> (string)

The risk of the current Auto Scaling group not meeting the performance needs of its workloads. The higher the risk, the more likely the current Auto Scaling group configuration has insufficient capacity and cannot meet workload requirements.

effectiveRecommendationPreferences -> (structure)

An object that describes the effective recommendation preferences for the Auto Scaling group.

cpuVendorArchitectures -> (list)

Describes the CPU vendor and architecture for an instance or Auto Scaling group recommendations.

For example, when you specify AWS_ARM64 with:

A GetEC2InstanceRecommendations or GetAutoScalingGroupRecommendations request, Compute Optimizer returns recommendations that consist of Graviton2 instance types only.

A GetEC2RecommendationProjectedMetrics request, Compute Optimizer returns projected utilization metrics for Graviton2 instance type recommendations only.

A ExportEC2InstanceRecommendations or ExportAutoScalingGroupRecommendations request, Compute Optimizer exports recommendations that consist of Graviton2 instance types only.

(string)

enhancedInfrastructureMetrics -> (string)

Describes the activation status of the enhanced infrastructure metrics preference.

A status of Active confirms that the preference is applied in the latest recommendation refresh, and a status of Inactive confirms that it’s not yet applied to recommendations.

For more information, see Enhanced infrastructure metrics in the Compute Optimizer User Guide .

inferredWorkloadTypes -> (string)

Describes the activation status of the inferred workload types preference.

A status of Active confirms that the preference is applied in the latest recommendation refresh. A status of Inactive confirms that it’s not yet applied to recommendations.

inferredWorkloadTypes -> (list)

The applications that might be running on the instances in the Auto Scaling group as inferred by Compute Optimizer.

Compute Optimizer can infer if one of the following applications might be running on the instances:

AmazonEmr - Infers that Amazon EMR might be running on the instances.

ApacheCassandra - Infers that Apache Cassandra might be running on the instances.

ApacheHadoop - Infers that Apache Hadoop might be running on the instances.

Memcached - Infers that Memcached might be running on the instances.

NGINX - Infers that NGINX might be running on the instances.

PostgreSql - Infers that PostgreSQL might be running on the instances.

Redis - Infers that Redis might be running on the instances.

(string)

errors -> (list)

An array of objects that describe errors of the request.

For example, an error is returned if you request recommendations for an unsupported Auto Scaling group.

(structure)

Describes an error experienced when getting recommendations.

For example, an error is returned if you request recommendations for an unsupported Auto Scaling group, or if you request recommendations for an instance of an unsupported instance family.

identifier -> (string)

The ID of the error.

code -> (string)

The error code.

message -> (string)

The message, or reason, for the error.

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