DescribeLifecycleHookTypes - Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
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DescribeLifecycleHookTypes

Describes the available types of lifecycle hooks.

The following hook types are supported:

  • autoscaling:EC2_INSTANCE_LAUNCHING

  • autoscaling:EC2_INSTANCE_TERMINATING

Response Elements

The following element is returned by the service.

LifecycleHookTypes.member.N

The lifecycle hook types.

Type: Array of strings

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 255.

Pattern: [\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\r\n\t]*

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Error Types.

ResourceContention

You already have a pending update to an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling resource (for example, an Auto Scaling group, instance, or load balancer).

message

HTTP Status Code: 500

Examples

Example

This example illustrates one usage of DescribeLifecycleHookTypes.

Sample Request

https://autoscaling.amazonaws.com/?Action=DescribeLifecycleHookTypes
&AutoScalingGroupName=my-asg
&Version=2011-01-01
&AUTHPARAMS

Sample Response

<DescribeLifecycleHookTypesResponse xmlns="https://autoscaling.amazonaws.com/doc/2011-01-01/">
  <DescribeLifecycleHookTypesResult>
    <LifecycleHookTypes>
      <member>autoscaling:EC2_INSTANCE_LAUNCHING</member>
      <member>autoscaling:EC2_INSTANCE_TERMINATING</member>
    </LifecycleHookTypes>
  </DescribeLifecycleHookTypesResult>
  <ResponseMetadata>
    <RequestId>7c6e177f-f082-11e1-ac58-3714bEXAMPLE</RequestId>
  </ResponseMetadata>
</DescribeLifecycleHookTypesResponse>

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: