Use AWS Auto Scaling to create scaling plans for your applications to automatically scale your scalable AWS resources.
API Summary
You can use the AWS Auto Scaling service API to accomplish the following tasks:
Create and manage scaling plans
Define target tracking scaling policies to dynamically scale your resources based on utilization
Scale Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups using predictive scaling and dynamic scaling to scale your Amazon EC2 capacity faster
Set minimum and maximum capacity limits
Retrieve information on existing scaling plans
Access current forecast data and historical forecast data for up to 56 days previous
To learn more about AWS Auto Scaling, including information about granting IAM users required permissions for AWS Auto Scaling actions, see the AWS Auto Scaling User Guide.
credentials: Optional credentials shorthand for the config parameter
creds :
access_key_id : AWS access key ID
secret_access_key : AWS secret access key
session_token : AWS temporary session token
profile : The name of a profile to use. If not given, then the default profile is used.
anonymous : Set anonymous credentials.
endpoint: Optional shorthand for complete URL to use for the constructed client.
region: Optional shorthand for AWS Region used in instantiating the client.
Returns
A client for the service. You can call the service's operations using syntax like svc$operation(...), where svc is the name you've assigned to the client. The available operations are listed in the Operations section.